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Del Potro was given a first-round bye in Toronto, but pulled out ahead of his second-round match with Robin Haase on Wednesday. The 2009 US Open champion underwent four wrist operations and considered retiring before returning in 2016. Del Potro has worked his way back up the rankings and reached the semi-finals at Flushing Meadows last year before doing the same at the French Open in June, a run he followed by progressing to the quarter-finals at Wimbledon last month....

Del Potro, who skipped January’s Australian Open as he recovered from a fractured kneecap, made his 2019 debut at the Delray Beach Open, where the Argentine star lost in the quarter-finals. The 30-year-old saved three championship points to upstage Roger Federer for his maiden Masters 1000 crown in Indian Wells 12 months ago but Del Potro will not be returning to defend his title. “Hi everyone! I wanted to give all of you an update that after playing Delray Beach we had various consultations with different specialists, and we decided that I needed to do a regenerative therapy treatment on my knee,” Del Potro said in a statement posted on Twitter....

The Delhi Police is hunting for fugitive don Dawood Ibrahim, his aide Chhota Shakeel and eight bookies, three of them in Pakistan, in connection with the spot fixing scandal in Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket matches, an official said on Tuesday. S.N. Srivastava, special commissioner of police (special cell), said: “Apart from Dawood Ibrahim and Chhota Shakeel, we are still hunting for eight bookies. Three of them — identified as Javed Chotani, Salman and Ahtesaam — are Pakistan-based, while five belong to different cities of India....

The next morning the prisoners were trucked to another makeshift jail in the town of Ghazni, 80 miles from Kabul. Within moments the daily round of airstrikes began–bombs exploding, guns firing, the walls of the jail shaking from the blasts. From the window the hostages saw Taliban soldiers fleeing the town. Then, an eerie silence. Thirty long minutes passed and suddenly there came a violent rattling at the door. “We thought it was the Taliban coming back, and it was the end of the road,” said Mercer, who had been captured, along with the other rest of her group, in early August, before the U....

A GoFundMe account that was set up by the delivery driver’s cousin has received at least $470,526 in donations as of publication time Wednesday. “Hi, my name is Richard and I am looking for donations for my cousin, Nick Bostic,” the GoFundMe page said. “This kid is the real deal. Sadly he has some injuries and will need help during this recovery…Thank you for your support!” According to a press release from the Lafayette Police Department, the incident occurred on July 11 at about 12:30 a....

MORE: Scoreboard | Images | Washington upsets Eagles Murray wore a wrap and a plastic protector on his left (non-carrying) hand, which was operated on last week to repair a broken bone, and carried for two yards on the Cowboys’ first snap at AT&T Stadium. On his 14th carry of the game, with 6:32 left in the second quarter, he plowed across for a one-yard touchdown run that gave the Cowboys a stunning 28-0 lead....

The France international pulled up early on and was replaced by Alex Collado, before being pictured on the bench with his right knee heavily strapped. Dembele’s participation in Tuesday’s semi-final second leg at Anfield will now be in question. The 21-year-old came off the bench in the 3-0 first-leg win over Jurgen Klopp’s side and squandered a glorious opportunity to add a fourth with almost the last kick of the game....

Johnson’s promotional debut will take place on the historic ONE: A NEW ERA card on 31 March at the Ryogoku Kokugikan in Japan. While Johnson is aware of the current champion Adriano Moraes, and that’s the man he ultimately wants to face for the World Title, Johnson knows he must first handle his initial assignment. Johnson is a part of the highly-anticipated ONE Flyweight World Grand Prix. The winner will get a shot at the World Title....

At ONE: A NEW ERA in Tokyo on 31 March, Johnson is set to take on Japanese striker Yuya “The Little Piranha” Wakamatsu in an opening quarterfinals matchup for the ONE Flyweight Grand Prix Tournament. The 32-year old signed with ONE Championship back in late 2018, and immediately became one of the promotion’s biggest signings in recent years. Now, the long-time flyweight world champion gets to showcase his skills on a new platform and in front of a new fanbase, starting with the eight-man flyweight tournament....

As per the developer’s website, Demiurge Studios is currently looking full-time Combat Designer with a particular forte for FPS PvP gameplay. Of course, any solid details pertaining to the project have been withheld, though the listing does mention that the game will be developed in the Unreal Engine. While the developer does have a history of collaborating with larger studios on major FPS titles, very little of Demiurge Studios’ portfolio suggests an expertise in PvP-driven multiplayer....

The debate will take place at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. CNN and the Des Moines Register will co-host the debate. Only five candidates have qualified for the debate: Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, Bernie Sanders, and Elizabeth Warren. Candidates needed to received 225,000 unique donor contributions, and meet one of two polling requirements. Polling-wise, candidates needed either two polls at 7 percent or more in the four early nominating states (Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, and South Carolina) or four polls at 5 percent or more in early nominating states or national surveys....

On Saturday, Connolly appeared in a video message on MSNBC’s The Cross Connection advocating for the change after he introduced legislation to remove the former FBI director’s name on February 25. “I introduced [legislation] to form a national commission to rename the J. Edgar Hoover building…we need to do this because frankly, J. Edgar Hoover was a malign character in American history,” he told the news outlet. “He was a racist who went after Martin Luther King in extraordinary ways....

“There is a segment of the population that feels antipathy towards the press that they express verbally, in threats, and also, at the extreme, physically in direct attacks on the press,” Blumenthal, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said. “What we have to address is the continuing threat of physical violence, whether by guns or by other means, against the press that may intimidate them in their vital newsgathering operations....

The Democrats also hate America’s biopharmaceutical industry, which they plan to tax into extinction with Nancy Pelosi’s new drug plan. Combine these two hatreds together, and you get a new low for the do-nothing Democrats in Congress. According to reports, Democrats are holding up passage of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada (USMCA) trade deal due, in part, to provisions that would bring Mexico’s and Canada’s rules on intellectual property protection for certain kinds of drugs more in-line with those in the United States....

The Republicans are firm favorites to take control of the House of Representatives, where they currently have 212 seats, versus 220 for the Democrats. According to the latest polling analysis by election website FiveThirtyEight, released on Wednesday, the GOP has an 84 percent chance of taking control of the House, versus a 16 percent chance of the Democrats holding on. But, while Republicans gains are widely expected, bookies are offering odds on a shock result that sees the Democrats increase their number of House representatives....

West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin and Texas Representative Henry Cuellar signed onto a letter last week urging the White House to extend Title 42, a pandemic-era policy started under the Trump administration allowing the U.S. government to quickly remove migrants from the countryto prevent the spread of COVID-19. As the pandemic winds down, immigration advocates have pushed the Biden administration to end the policy, but others say that maintaining Title 42 is needed to deal with a surge of migrants seeking asylum at the U....

Despite vaccines being widely available, hesitancy remains high and cases continue to surge in parts of the country, causing hospitals to be overwhelmed. The virus’ continued circulation is fueling criticism of public health officials’ push for vaccinations and booster shots and some have raised the possibility that COVID-19 will be endemic. Democrats and Republicans are largely on the same page with regard to the belief that the COVID-19 outbreak won’t be brought under control in the next month or two or even by the end of the year....

The Change Research/CNBC poll said President Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic was having a strong impact on voter opinion—especially in swing states like Arizona, Michigan and North Carolina. “Approval of Trump’s COVID response has never been lower in the battleground [states] and nationally,” the poll said. More than half of the voters polled thought the president was making decisions that contributed to the surge in new virus cases reported by several states in recent weeks, the pollsters said....

Yet the decision is creating a growing controversy. To start, s0me are iffy about the existence of new content for the Demon’s Souls remake at all. Many fans of From Software games dislike the idea of pre-order DLC or other kinds of content that would change the experience. Demon’s Souls is going beyond anything From Software titles have ever done, with the Deluxe Edition including two types of armor, a blade and shield, as well as a variety of souls and shards....