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At the end of a truly wild occasion, this the definition of the game of two halves, it was difficult to state the case for Manchester City’s Premier League title-winning aspirations.
The manner of their second-half capitulation saw to that. If they were impressive before the interval, they were so brittle thereafter, blown off course after Tottenham stirred. Pep Guardiola was beside himself with frustration on the touchline.
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Deputy US attorney general says victims ‘want to be made whole’ but that doesn’t mean ‘we can just create evidence’
The deputy US attorney general, Todd Blanche, the point person on the Trump administration’s Epstein files release, told ABC News on Sunday that prosecutors’ review of the Jeffrey Epstein-Ghislaine Maxwell sex-trafficking case “is over”.
Separately, in comments to CNN about Epstein, Blanche said that “victims want to be made whole” after surviving the scheme attributed to the late convicted sex offender and which led to a 20-year prison sentence for Maxwell beginning in 2022.
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2nd T20i: England, 173-4, bt Sri Lanka, 189-5, by 6wkts (DLS)
Banton 54*, Brook hits 36 off 12 balls for 2-0 series lead
Numerous apologies, intense scrutiny but, still, he goes and does that. Harry Brook’s 12-ball 36 helped England chase down a revised target of 168 in the second Twenty20 international against Sri Lanka, securing the tourists’ second series victory of the week.
England had initially been set 190, but a rain break prompted a change of equation; when Brook emerged England needed 87 from 7.5 overs in a reduced game. He put on an exhibition over extra cover to turn the chase his side’s way. While the captain’s knock was brief, Tom Banton made his case for a starting spot at the World Cup, putting aside his tough time in the field to stay the course with an excellent, unbeaten on 54.
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