All posts tagged: angers

Ligue 1: Lens Run Riot Against Angers (5-1) to Reclaim Top Spot

Ligue 1: Lens Run Riot Against Angers (5-1) to Reclaim Top Spot

Elsewhere in Ligue 1, all eyes turn to Saturday’s clash in Nice, where Paris Saint-Germain must respond. Sitting two points behind Lens, the Parisians need a win to reclaim first place, but will have to do it without in-form Bradley Barcoley, sidelined for several weeks with an ankle injury. In Monaco, Paul Pogba may finally be nearing a return. The 2018 World Cup winner is back in full training with the Principality club. No official comeback date has been set, but April 5, against Marseille on Matchday 28, is being targeted. In the Premier League, no Arsenal or Manchester City in league action this weekend, the top two meet instead in Sunday’s League Cup final. Manchester United were held to a frustrating 2-2 draw at Bournemouth on Friday, leaving the door open for Aston Villa and Liverpool to close the gap. The Reds, meanwhile, will be without Mohamed Salah for their trip to Brighton. On the international stage, France are gearing up for a US tour next week, but head coach Didier Deschamps will be …

MAGA angers the NRA over Minneapolis shooting

MAGA angers the NRA over Minneapolis shooting

For the second time this month, federal agents have fatally shot someone in Minneapolis while enacting Donald Trump’s crackdown on immigration enforcement.  Alex Pretti did exactly what the National Rifle Association has been telling Americans to do for decades. On a freezing Saturday morning, the 37-year-old ICU nurse at a Veterans Affairs hospital, legally carrying his holstered Sig Sauer pistol with a valid permit, stood between federal immigration agents and a woman they’d just shoved to the ground. He was filming the scene with his phone, one hand raised, when Border Patrol agents pepper-sprayed him, wrestled him down, disarmed him of his holstered weapon and then shot him dead. If there were ever a case that cut to the philosophical core of the Second Amendment as it is preached in conservative America, this is it. The amendment’s legitimacy rests, the right argues, on a single foundational promise: an armed populace is a safeguard against tyranny. Guns are not just for hunting or sport, or even for personal defense. They are the last line between free …