Solo trails only Briana Scurry in career appearance and wins in a U.S. Soccer uniform and holds the all-time record for shutouts with 78. MORE: USA’s final roster set | World Cup winners | World Cup tickets Who is Hope Solo? Three things you need to know. Until college, she scored goals instead of stopping them Solo did’t transition into a full-time goalkeeper until her college days at Washington. As a forward at Richland High School she scored 109 goals and led her team to a state title as a senior in 1998....

Roberts, who spent the last two seasons with the Pelicans, is expected to backup Kemba Walker in Charlotte this season. Hornets general manager Rich Cho said in a release Wednesay, “Brian is a quality point guard who we believe will play a key role for us. We look forward to having him as part of our team.” The 6-foot-1 Roberts started 42 games last season averaging 9.4 points, 3.3 assists and 1....

Minutes after an 83-year-old woman in her care died on January 24, 23-year-old Ayesha Basharat, an employee of Heartlands Hospital in Birmingham, England, stole the woman’s bank card to buy snacks. Closed-circuit TV footage caught her in the act of making six £1 contactless purchases at a nearby vending machine, according to the Belfast Telegraph. She made additional purchases that evening and tried to make even more two times within the next four days....

With the Orioles, Pirates, Royals and Blue Jays all breaking through the playoff barrier in recent years, Seattle’s postseason drought is the longest in baseball. The Mariners fell a game short of the second wild-card spot two years ago, then struggled through a thoroughly disappointing 2015 season that started with lofty expectations and ended with just 76 wins. It was the ninth time in 12 seasons that Seattle finished fourth in the AL West....

“We’re always looking for initiatives to become greener, to take care of our environment, and look at opportunities to lower costs,” Burrough said. Bill Halter, CEO of Scenic Hill Solar, says Hot Springs is the largest Arkansas city to rely completely on solar energy. Halter’s company will be building solar power plants on 80 acres of land in the city, including some property owned by the city. Hot Springs will then purchase the power created by the solar cells....

Detroit has come out with plenty of hot SUVs and pickups in the past few years. But Chrysler is doing something Detroit hasn’t managed in decades: generating buzz for a traditional car. You remember those things–they have four doors but no four-wheel drive. GM is also rediscovering cars, with models like the tasteful Pontiac G6. But in a culture that’s big on the brash statement, car buyers like Chrysler’s wild ride....

How to catch a Scorpio’s eye: Stay mysterious. Scorpio, ruled by enigmatic Pluto, needs to be lured in in love—if you can convince them that you’re the most fascinating person on the planet, you’ll have them in the palm of your hand. Why not pass by them at the party, say hello, then leave them hanging? They’ll absolutely love you for it. How to catch Taurus’ eye: Casually touch them (with their permission of course!...

The three Democratic lawmakers—Jerrold Nadler (House Judiciary), Bennie G. Thompson (House Homeland Security), and Carolyn B. Maloney (House Oversight and Reform)—said this is a “matter of utmost urgency.” “The Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) appear to have increasingly abused emergency authorities to justify the use of force against Americans exercising their right to peaceful assembly,” they stated in their letter. Saturday night in Portland marked the 52nd consecutive day of protests against police brutality and systemic racism....

Congressman James Comer, a ranking member of the committee who represents Kentucky’s 1st congressional district, issued a statement condemning the proposals on Tuesday. “Democrats’ plan to bail out locked-down, poorly managed liberal states is unfair to American taxpayers and is ripe for waste, fraud, and abuse,” Comer said. “More money should not be provided to liberal states that closed businesses, schools, and churches, which placed their residents in greater economic, physical, and mental harm,” he said....

The demand comes after the White House and the Ukrainian government disputed a CNN report in which a senior Ukrainian official told the network the call “did not go well.” The House Republican Conference pointed to a video of Biden’s remarks in 2019 calling on then President Donald Trump to release the transcript of a phone call he had with Zelensky. The Twitter account for House Republicans sent a series of tweets on Thursday demanding that Biden release the transcript, as well as examples of Biden and other Democrats calling for the Trump-Zelensky transcript to be released in 2019....

“It’s really important that we show up here to work at the Capitol to do our job as we’re calling on Americans all across the country to safely reopen,” U.S. House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-Louisiana) told reporters Wednesday. “This is not constitutional. The Constitution makes it clear that we have to have a majority of members present for a quorum to do business.” The move complicates a dilemma House members had tried to solve: How to conduct business while reducing lawmakers’s risk of catching COVID-19....

Flooding has become a major problem in the Houston area, including the East Aldine neighborhood, where streets and waterways don’t drain well. In 2017, East Aldine residents fled their homes through chest-high water during Hurricane Harvey as they sought higher ground. The neighborhood was flooded again in 2019 during Tropical Storm Imelda. The working class, predominantly Latino neighborhood has not seen any of the federal relief funds promised to Texas following the estimated $125 billion worth of damage caused by Hurricane Harvey despite Houston and Harris County getting hit the hardest....

These changes tend to develop gradually as cell turnover and collagen production begin to slow. As the skin starts to thin, so, too, will the fatty layer cushioning the soles and heels. These changes can give rise to stability problems affecting the knees, hips, and lower back. The gradual wearing down of cartilage in the joint space, along with inflammation of bursa and tendons, only adds to the burden....

The measurement is used to help governments determine the benefits of a proposed policy. It includes the effects on human health, economies, and agriculture. The findings, published in the journal Science Advances, create potentially new motivations for countries to cut emissions—and to care about others doing the same. Study lead author Dr. Geeta Persad, of the University of Texas at Austin, said: “Carbon dioxide has the same impact on climate no matter who emits it but for these aerosol pollutants, they tend to stay concentrated near where they are emitted, so the effect they have on the climate system is very patchy and very dependent on where they are coming from....

Early Stages In the early stages of Alzheimer’s, physical ability remains largely intact. It’s not uncommon for people with early dementia to walk for more than a mile at a time and appear to have completely normal functioning. It’s often difficult to tell that someone has early stage dementia just by looking at them. In fact, it may appear there is nothing wrong with them. Middle Stages As Alzheimer’s progresses into the middle stages, the physical ability of people begins to decline....

For instance, you can typically start pruning a mountain laurel in February. [2] X Research source Cherry laurels can be pruned anytime between January and July. You don’t need to remove both branches—just take off 1 of the tangled limbs. [5] X Research source It can be tricky to cut back such a large number of branches! To make things easier, count your laurel boughs in groups of 3. Prune back every branch that lands on the number 3....

The virus also has a secondary effect on reproductive health, which the Trump administration has also exacerbated. The pandemic impacts reproductive decisions, with many people preferring to delay pregnancy and/or have fewer children. That makes reproductive health services all the more crucial, but they’re harder to access because of Trump’s policies. Restricting access to reproductive health services is especially damaging in the midst of a pandemic, but that’s exactly what the outgoing administration and its allies in statehouses have done....

Russell told Bryant that he had the skills to dribble, pass and shoot at a high level, but he recognized that his Celtics teammates were better in those offensive areas. In order for Boston to reach its ultimate goal, he had to shift his attention to the other end of the floor. “[Russell said], ‘What I do best is defend and rebound, so I’m going to completely focus on that....

While breast cancer can be deadly for all women if not diagnosed at an early stage, people have remarkable outcomes when diagnosed early. Unfortunately, this does not always happen. Black women are less often diagnosed with stage 1 breast cancer, when it’s highly treatable, than White women. They also more often receive a diagnosis of triple-negative breast cancer, an aggressive form of breast cancer that requires urgent treatment. Early detection and prevention are the keys to turning these statistics around....

The draft will lack the usual glitz and glamour of previous years as teams and players continue to follow social distancing guidelines, but that doesn’t mean less work went into its preparation: It will be the culmination of months’ worth of work by coaches, executives, scouts and doctors as they prepare and evaluate players transitioning from college football to the pros. MORE: SN’s three-round mock draft — Dolphins take a QB, but not Tua...