Three members of an Eastern European crime group were arrested in a thwarted murder-for-hire plot targeting a U.S. journalist and human rights activist of Iranian origin who is a prominent critic of Iran, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Friday. One of the men, 24-year-old New York resident Khalid Mehdiyev, was apprehended in late July with an AK-47-style assault rifle near the victim’s home in Brooklyn as he was about to “execute the attack on the victim,” according to an indictment unsealed Friday in Manhattan federal court. Authorities said the plot was conducted at the behest of unidentified individuals in Iran.…
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Jayson Tatum had 37 points and 14 rebounds, Jaylen Brown added 21 points and 11 rebounds and the Boston Celtics took a 3-1 lead in their NBA Playoff series with 107-98 victory over the Orlando Magic on Sunday evening.Kristaps Porzingis scored 19 points, including a dunk of his own missed layout that brought Boston forward with 3:58. Derrick White ended with 18 points, seven rebounds and seven assists.Paolo Bancero led Orlando with 31 points.Game 5 of the best-of-7 first round series will be played in Boston on Tuesday evening.Franz Wagner had 24 points and seven assists for Orlando. Cory Joseph…
magine your journey into your current job. Did you have to go through multiple interviews? Perhaps even apply for dozens of roles before you snared the right one? If so, you might benefit from a different approach – at least, according to the experiences of one very successful figure in the finance world. Yana Shkrebenkova is the chief executive at Revolut Trading UK, the investment product arm of the company you’ll know from app stores, adverts and quite possibly your own accounts. After undertaking a degree at Exeter University and before moving into her present role, Ms Shkrebenkova had already worked with or alongside Deutsche…
Bob Pockrass FOX Motorsports Insider Talladega, Ala. – The races on Talladega SuperSpeedway usually end with lures that result in large blocks and wrecks – or almost wrecks.None of that happened on Sunday, because drivers stayed in front of a two-by-two formation until the finish line. It is not as if none of the divers who exceeded the finish line after winner Austin Cindric was not willing to make the movements. They just could never push themselves in position.Is Ryan Precece (who crossed the line, but eventually disqualified after technical inspection), Kyle Larson (Second) or William Byron (third) slip away…
Milwaukee Bucks Guard Damian Lillard has left Game 4 of an Eastern Conference First-round Playoff series with the Indiana Pacers after he hurt his left left leg in the first quarter.Lillard was helped and helped in the dressing room after the suffering of contactless injury. The bucks announced that he will not return to the game. According to NBA -Sinsider Chris Haynes there is fear that Lillard was suffering from Achilles.The sevenfold all-nba player was behind the 3-point line when the ball ran to him. Lillard used his left hand to teammate Gary Trent Jr. To give, the went down…
Damian Lillard left with an injury with left leg during the Cractkwartier of Game 4 of the Milwaukee Bucks vs. Indiana Pacers First Rounst series in the NBA play -offs from 2025. Lillard fell to the floor and went for a loose ball and did not contact us with no contact in the leg. He was eventually helped off the floor and excluded the competition. The bucks are afraid of a torn Achilles, according to Insider Chris Haynes. Here is the piece where Lillard was offended: The bucks had fallen 2-1 in the series that introduced a must-win game 4…
Sub of the biggest names of the Liv Golf League set up a show in the final round of Liv Golf Mexico City, but it was Joaquin Nieman who eventually claimed the individual title on Sunday at Club de Golf Chapultepec, while Legion XIII held to win the team title.Couple GC captain Niemann started the two shots behind leader Bryson Dechambeau, but he accused the leaderboard on Sunday to end up at 16 and claimed his third victory in six etching this season.Final round highlights at Liv Golf Mexico City | Liv on Fox In the last group, Niemann played…
With the Lakers 2-1 in their series against the Minnesota Timberwolves, and confronted with an (insurmountable probaby) 3-1 deficit in the crub round of the NBA play-offs, head coach JJ Redick made a decision: he was Eithher started sinking or swimming with the boys who got him so far. That is really the only justification for why Redick Starters LeBron James, Luka Doncic, Austin Reaves and Rui Hachimura played the entire last 24 minutes of the playing time, while he also bankes nominal start center Jaxson Hayes for Dorian Finney-Smith (who also played the entire second half). If that seemed…
Heliot Ramos circled the bases on an Infield-Single and two Texas error A small competition-gay in the ninth inning while the San Francisco Giants ran 3-2 on Sunday.With the game in the bottom of the ninth, Ramos led away with a soft dribbler to the right of the hill of the pitcher. Rangers-Reliever Luke Jackson (0-3) threw the ball wide from the first base, and then Jake Burger-after the collection of the ball in error territory duration wide of the third in an attempt to get Ramos. With the mistakes, Ramos was able to score the winning run.Heliot Ramos hits…
The Minnesota Timberwolves are a victory removed from securing a first round upset about the Los Angeles Lakers, a victory of 116-113 in the game 4 of Sunday to get a 3-1 series lead. In a game that went back and forth for all 48 minutes, the Timberwolves Uble were to pull away because of a series of coupling games in the last 40 seconds. Firstly, Jaden McDaniels made a layout while he got F Atrad by Austin Reaves with 39.1 seconds to bind the game on 113-113. McDaniels hit the subsequent free throw to give his team a one…