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has warned his teammates that forward is a "top player in form" as Mikel Arteta urged his strikers to find their ruthless streak to keep their Champions League hopes on track. Gyökeres has become one of Europe's most prolific forwards after netting 24 goals in 17 games this season, attracting interest from a host of clubs including , , and the Gunners. Sporting host Arsenal at Estadio Jose Alvalade on Tuesday and Arsenal goalkeeper Raya said of Gyökeres: "We know his strengths, how he runs a lot in behind and scores a lot in one v. one and he is a top player in form. "We are going to try and keep him very, very quiet. Don't give him any chances. We have to step up defensively. Hopefully we can do a great job and keep a clean sheet." Arteta refused to be drawn on Gyökeres specifically, choosing instead to focus on Sporting's collective threat, having beaten Manchester City 4-1 in Ruben Amorim's final Champions League match before becoming United boss. Gyökeres scored a hat trick that night and since joining Sporting from Coventry in 2022, he has scored 69 goals in 67 games across all competitions. Asked how good the Sweden international is and how Arsenal can stop him, Arteta chose to focus on Sporting's remarkable unbeaten 19-game run this season, including 17 victories. "I would like to talk about the team, about the coaches and how phenomenal they have been," said Arteta. "The run they are in is incredible. That tells you that it is not only the quality, the setup, the ambition, it is something about the team energy that they have. That is a great challenge that we have tomorrow, to come here and make a statement and show we are capable against this kind of opponent. Be ourselves and win the game." Pushed further on Gyökeres, Arteta replied: "I understand the question, but they have a lot of individual qualities. That's why they can win games in various ways. And yes, in the specific position they have great players." Arsenal have won just one of their last eight away games in Europe and have not scored in their last four, a run dating back to last December's 1-1 draw against when the Gunners had already booked their spot in the knockout rounds. "Not all the games have been the same. It's true that within those games there were games that were when we had already qualified," Arteta said. "Something that is very true is that we have to improve those results and we have to find ways to understand what has been missing. Sometimes it's been performance, sometimes it's been other aspects. That's the next step we have to make as a team. "I wouldn't say that this is the most important thing but the efficiency that we have shown inside the box at this level with the chances that we are normally able to generate in the Champions League level, is not at the level required to win consistently. "I always say the Champions League is about boxes, small margins and details. You have to get all of those right to win, especially away from home." Sporting are second in the Champions League table, two points behind first-place Liverpool, while Arsenal sit in 12th on seven points after four matches.PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Philadelphia Phillies have no plans to pitch prized prospect Andrew Painter in spring training games as he recovers from Tommy John surgery. The 21-year-old Painter hurt his elbow during spring training in 2023 and had surgery that July 25 with Los Angeles Dodgers head team physician Dr. Neal ElAttrache. Painter was the 13th overall pick in the 2021 amateur draft and signed for a $3.9 million bonus. “He'll throw but not plan on pitching” in games, Phillies president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski said Monday. “We're going to push the innings back.” Dombrowski said Painter will build up at some point in the minor leagues and could make his major league debut at some point in the summer. Painter made six starts and allowed four runs in the Arizona Fall League. He struck out 18 batters in 15 2/3 innings after he sat out each of the last two seasons. Painter sprinted through Philadelphia’s system in 2022, going 6-2 with a 1.48 ERA in 26 appearances spread across two Class A teams and Double-A Reading. AP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/MLB

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Dodgers announce 5-year contract with LHP Blake SnellATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey gambling regulators have handed out $40,000 in fines to two sportsbooks and a tech company for violations that included taking bets on unauthorized events, and on games that had already ended. In information made public Monday, the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement fined DraftKings $20,000. It also levied $10,000 fines on Rush Street Interactive NJ and the sports betting technology company Kambi. According to documents released by the state, Rush Street accepted 16 bets worth $1,523 in Nov. 2021 on a college basketball game between the University of North Carolina-Asheville and Tennessee Tech University after the game had already concluded with a UNC victory. Kambi told the enforcement division that a trader had failed to manually remove that game from its betting markets, saying it had stopped receiving messages from its own sports data provider due to a network connectivity error. Kambi said it has updated its guidelines and retrained its traders to prevent a recurrence. Kambi, which is based in Malta, did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment Monday. Rush Street declined comment, and DraftKings had no immediate comment Monday. DraftKings stopped using Kambi in 2021. In March 2022 Rush Street took seven bets totaling just under $2,900 on three Magic City Jai Alai games after the results were already known. Kambi told the division it experienced a connectivity issue that allowed the bets to be accepted after the games were over. An explanation of what Kambi did to address the situation was blacked out in documents released by the division. A month earlier Rush Street took 13 wagers worth $8,150 with pre-match odds on a Professional Golf Association match after the event had already begun. In this case, Kambi told the division a newly hired trader failed to enter the correct closing time time for bets on the event. The trader and a supervisor underwent retraining. DraftKings was fined for taking bets on unapproved events including Russian basketball for nine months in 2020 and 2021. It eventually voided over $61,000 in bets and returned the money to customers after being directed to do so by the state. In this case, Kambi told the division it misidentified this particular Russian basketball league as one that was approved for wagering in New Jersey. DraftKings told the state it did not catch the error, either. In 2020, DraftKings accepted 484 wagers on unapproved table tennis matches. Kambi incorrectly enabled the events for wagering without conditions required by the state, the division said. In Feb. 2022, the division said DraftKings took pre-season NFL bets involving specific players but did not give the state specific information on what information was to be included in the bets, drawing 182 wagers worth nearly $7,000 that were later voided and refunded to customers. Follow Wayne Parry on X at www.twitter.com/WayneParryAC

For women living with endometriosis, debilitating pain, fatigue and heavy periods can make it feel almost impossible to sustain a career or social life. The only way formally to diagnose endometriosis is through invasive surgery, but getting to that stage can take on average eight to 10 years, from a patient's first GP appointment. For women like Dee Montague-Coast, 41, the lack of evidence of disease during the diagnostic delay can lead to people not believing they are unwell, and even force them to change careers. Now an evidence-based "symptom reporting tool" has been developed by Cardiff academics aimed at highlighting patterns that will raise healthcare providers' attention. Dee, from Newport, was diagnosed with endometriosis in 2018 after 23 years of symptoms. She left a job in marketing after questions were raised by former colleagues over whether her symptoms were fabricated for extra time off. "When it's gynae [gynaecology] related, there's common assumptions that this is something all women and people assigned female at birth go through and that we should get on with it," she said. "I've had people think that I'm attention-seeking, that I'm making things up, that I'm just maybe a bit weak or a bit pathetic." Time away from work to manage her chronic pain led to Dee having to attend an attendance hearing. "I felt that I was treated in the same way as somebody who was perfectly healthy," she said. Dee also suffers with adenomyosis - where the lining of the womb starts growing into the muscle in the wall of the womb - and said her diagnostic delay caused further health issues. These included myalgic encephalomyelitis or ME, which is also called chronic fatigue syndrome, and fibromyalgia . Endometriosis is a gynaecological condition associated with menstruation where tissue similar to the lining of the womb is found in other areas of the body, including the fallopian tubes, pelvis, bowel, vagina and intestines. In rare cases it has even been found in the lungs, eyes, spine and brain. Symptoms include severe to debilitating pain often in the pelvic area, fatigue, and heavy periods, and the condition is also associated with infertility. There is no cure for endometriosis, and the cause is not known. A collaboration between academics and healthcare professionals in Cardiff has now developed a symptom reporting tool for Endometriosis Cymru. Dr Robyn Jackowich, a lecturer in psychology at Cardiff University, who led the development of the tool, said it could be used to "track five key symptoms of endometriosis daily, where a patient will rate the level of pain intensity of each symptom and the impact that it is having on their life". "We recommend doing that for about two months. "From there, you can generate a brief report that summarises the information and graphs your symptoms, so you can share it with your healthcare provider or employer." Dr Jackowich said the tool could also be used by women like Dee who have received their diagnosis, but want to continue tracking their symptoms over time. "Perhaps something has changed, or they've started a new treatment," she said. Surgery can only remove or destroy some endometriosis tissue, so women were often left managing symptoms until they improved after menopause. In November, Dee gave evidence at the Senedd's Disability and Employment Inquiry, which aimed to evaluate what more could be done to reduce and remove barriers to employment faced by disabled people. "When we started exploring reasonable adjustments, I didn't understand that I was disabled under the Equality Act, or know I was allowed to call myself disabled," Dee said. "We have such a narrow view of what disability is, and what it looks like." A Social Model of Disability was formally adopted by the Welsh government in 2002, but Dee said there were "still too many employers who don't know about it." Endometriosis as a chronic condition doesn't automatically qualify as a disability under equality law - but, a person living with endometriosis can be disabled by their condition - and the law accepts this. Endometriosis symptoms that worsen over time as a 'progressive condition' are also covered by the Equality Act 2010. Karen Hiu Ching Lo, vice-chair of Fair Treatment for the Women of Wales (FTWW), also has endometriosis and often missed lectures as a medical student in Cardiff, due to multiple debilitating symptoms. She said the symptoms such as intense pain, bowel and bladder issues, and low mood can often lead to confusion at the point of referral, and ultimately delayed their diagnosis. "What we're trying to do is make people realise that this could be all one condition, and that all you needed was that one referral to the right person. "When we speak to medical health professionals a lot of our experiences could feel invalidated. We want this tool to be able to empower patients, and also be able to guide GPs." Dee now works with FTWW, using her experience to support members using the tool. She said if it had existed at the time of her diagnosis, it could have saved more than two decades of agony. "It would have accelerated my diagnosis and treatment," Dee said. "I didn't necessarily have classic endometriosis symptoms, and that is very, very challenging to explain to an employer." A spokesperson for Cardiff and Vale University Health Board said: "We are aware of the impact delays in diagnostics for women's health conditions can have on patients and as part of the joint endometriosis action plan we are committed to supporting patients to access evidence-based support in a timely manner." A Welsh government spokesperson said: "The symptom reporting tool enables women to track their symptoms and communicate easily with professionals, thereby improving experiences for both patients and healthcare professionals.

US President-elect Donald Trump warned the so-called BRICS nations that he would require commitments that they would not move to create a new currency as an alternative to using the US dollar and repeated threats to levy a 100% tariff. “The idea that the BRICS Countries are trying to move away from the Dollar while we stand by and watch is OVER,” Trump said in a post to his Truth Social network on Saturday. “We require a commitment from these Countries that they will neither create a new BRICS Currency, nor back any other Currency to replace the mighty U.S. Dollar or, they will face 100% Tariffs, and should expect to say goodbye to selling into the wonderful U.S. Economy,” he added. Also read: Canada’s Trudeau arrives in Florida for meeting with Trump after tariff threat Trump on his campaign trail pledged that he would make it costly for countries to move away from the US dollar. And he’s threatened to use tariffs to ensure they complied. Saturday’s threat took on new relevance as the president-elect prepares to retake power in January. Trump and his economic advisers have been discussing ways to punish allies and adversaries alike who seek to engage in bilateral trade in currencies other than the dollar. Those measures include considering options such as export controls, currency manipulation charges and levies on trade, according to people familiar with the matter. Trump has long stressed that he wants the US dollar to remain the world’s reserve currency, saying in a March interview with CNBC that he “would not allow countries to go off the dollar” because it would be “a hit to our country.” Also read: Trump threatens to impose sweeping new tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China on first day in office The BRICS nations — as Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa are collectively known — discussed the issue of de-dollarization at a summit in 2023. Backlash against the dollar’s dominance gained traction in 2022 when the US led efforts to impose economic sanctions on Russia. Economic advisers to Trump and his campaign have spoken in particular about targeting the BRICS effort. Earlier: Trump Aides Discuss Penalties for Nations That De-Dollarize “There is no chance that the BRICS will replace the U.S. Dollar in International Trade, and any Country that tries should wave goodbye to America,” Trump said Saturday. The president-elect has already rattled world markets ahead of his second term with threats to levy an additional 10% tariffs on goods from China and 25% tariffs on all products from Mexico and Canada if those countries do not do more to stem the flow of illegal drugs and undocumented migrants across US borders. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met with Trump on Friday to discuss trade and border issues in a bid to tamp down tensions between the two allied nations after the tariff threat.AP Business SummaryBrief at 5:20 p.m. EST

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Federal prosecutors have moved to dismiss the criminal charges against President-elect Donald Trump accusing him of plotting to overturn the 2020 election and improperly storing classified documents after he left office. In court papers, they cited longstanding Justice Department policy that says sitting presidents cannot face criminal prosecution. The decision by special counsel Jack Smith represented the end of the federal effort against the former president following his election victory this month, despite the election-related cases and multiple other unrelated criminal charges against him. The Justice Department had sought to hold Trump accountable for what prosecutors called a criminal conspiracy to cling to power in the run-up to his supporters’ attack on the US Capitol on 6 January 2021. But prosecutors said the Justice Department’s position “is that the Constitution requires that this case be dismissed before the defendant is inaugurated”. Smith’s team emphasised that the move to abandon the prosecutions, in federal courts in Washington and Florida, was not a reflection of their view on the merits of the cases but rather a reflection of their commitment to longstanding department policy. “That prohibition is categorical and does not turn on the gravity of the crimes charged, the strength of the Government’s proof, or the merits of the prosecution, which the Government stands fully behind,” the prosecutors wrote in Monday’s court filing in the election interference case. The decision was expected after Smith’s team began assessing how to wind down both the 2020 election interference case and the separate classified documents case in the wake of Trump’s victory over Vice President Kamala Harris. The Justice Department believes Trump can no longer be tried in accordance with long-standing policy that says sitting presidents cannot be prosecuted. Trump has cast both cases as politically motivated and has vowed to fire Smith as soon as he takes office in January. Read Next Trump's health team is trying to roll back decades of proven science The 2020 election case brought last year was once seen as one of the most serious legal threats facing the Republican as he vied to reclaim the White House. However, it quickly stalled amid legal fighting over Trump’s sweeping claims of immunity from prosecution for acts he took while in the White House. The US Supreme Court in July ruled for the first time that former presidents have broad immunity from prosecution, and sent the case back to US District Judge Tanya Chutkan to determine which allegations in the indictment, if any, could proceed to trial. The case was just beginning to pick up steam again in the trial court in the weeks leading up this year’s election. Smith’s team filed a lengthy brief in October laying out new evidence they planned to use against him at trial, accusing him of “resorting to crimes” in an increasingly desperate effort to overturn the will over voters after he lost to President Joe Biden.Trump nominates Kash Patel to serve as FBI directorEndometriosis can cause debilitating pain, fatigue and heavy periods, making it feel almost impossible to sustain a career or social life. The only way to formally diagnose it is through invasive surgery, but getting to that stage can take on average eight to 10 years from a patient's first GP appointment. And for women like Dee Montague-Coast, 41, that diagnostic delay led to people not believing she was unwell, forcing her to change career. She left a job in marketing after questions were raised by former colleagues over whether her symptoms were fabricated for extra time off Video edited by Erin Lister