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Brett OkamotoFeb 9, 2025, 01:35 AM ETCloseMMA columnist for ESPN.com Analyst for “MMA Live” Covered MMA for Las Vegas SunDricus Du Plessis already had a win over Sean Strickland going into UFC 312. What he wanted was an exclamation point over him — and that’s what he got.Du Plessis (23-2) left no doubt about his superiority on Saturday in Sydney, as he beat Strickland (29-7) for the second time in a 185-pound title fight. Although the defending champion couldn’t put away Strickland, he dominated the cards, earning a unanimous decision by marks of 50-45, 50-45 and 49-46.It was different from…

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — At dawn, 65-year-old Nelly Mutandwa swapped her pajamas for leggings, a T-shirt and sneakers. She grabbed a bottle of water before heading to an unconventional workout spot: a cemetery in Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare.Surrounded by rows of graves, she joined other members of the Commandos Fitness Club in an hour-long session of squats, lunges and stretches as upbeat music blared. For Mutandwa, the daily routine is more than exercise. It’s her lifeline in managing diabetes.“They are resting,” she said, pointing to the graves. “I just don’t want to join them yet. That means I have to do…

CBS News Pittsburgh Live NORTH HUNTINGDON TOWNSHIP, Pa. (KDKA) — A Westmoreland County vape shop was raided by North Huntingdon police, Westmoreland County detectives and state agents with the Westmoreland County Drug Task Force on Wednesday following a monthslong investigation.On Feb. 6, police executed a search warrant at Star Smoke and Vape on Route 30 in North Huntingdon Township, and after making varying undercover purchases and receiving information that employees were selling products to underage individuals, police seized large quantities of controlled substances containing illegal thresholds of Delta 8, Delta 9 and THCA, according to a news release from the…

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO)- A woman from El Paso County is warning others after her Facebook account was hacked and tried to scam her friends out of hundreds of dollars. The hackers got into her Facebook account changing her email and password and locking her out.  Karen Roberts told KRDO13 that she’s already reached out to Facebook and says they weren’t helpful at all. Roberts’ account was hacked in January, but she didn’t know about it until one of her friends reached out. “No idea what she was talking about. And she said it didn’t sound like you because she knew how I would talk. And…

Telsa, SpaceX, and X CEO Elon Musk looks on ahead of the inauguration ceremony where Donald Trump will sworn in as the 47th US President in the US Capitol Rotunda in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2025. Musk attacked the US Agency for International Development on February 2, 2025, calling it a “criminal organization” after Donald Trump moved to freeze the bulk of Washington’s foreign assistance for three months. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla / POOL / AFP) WASHINGTON, United States — Elon Musk, the world’s richest person and a top advisor to US President Donald Trump, said he has no…

Good news for all the gamers out there. PlayStation Network services have been restored, the company says, after an hours-long network outage left users offline and frustrated.”PSN has been restored,” PlayStation said in an update shortly before 7 p.m. ET Saturday. “You should be able to access online features without any problems now.”The company did not state why services had been disrupted and apologized to users “for the inconvenience.” USA TODAY reached out to Sony PlayStation earlier on Saturday about the network outage, but did not receive a response.On Friday night, the PlayStation Network, which connects friends to play games…

CNN  —  Local residents confronted and drove off neo-Nazi demonstrators waving large swastika-emblazoned flags along a highway overpass on Friday in Evendale, Ohio, home to a historically Black community that has endured a long history of racism. White nationalist groups in Ohio have recently grown increasingly brazen in expressing hateful rhetoric and racist ideologies. Last November, Hate Club, a newly formed White supremacist organization, paraded through a Columbus neighborhood, waving swastika flags and shouting racist slurs. About a dozen neo-Nazis, wearing all black clothing and red face masks the marchers in Columbus also wore, were seen on traffic cameras waving…

All 10 people aboard a small plane that went missing and was later discovered crashed in Alaska have been confirmed dead, officials said in a statement.The Alaska Department of Public Safety said Saturday that all aboard the plane — nine passengers and one pilot — died. The plane had been traveling from Unalakleet to Nome on Thursday when it went missing. It was found crashed on Friday.The Alaska State Troopers positively identified all 10 victims on the plane after they were recovered and brought to Nome, Alaska DPS said in a statement.The dead were identified as pilot Chad Antill, 34,…

The quake struck at 6:23 pm local time in the middle of the sea and had a depth of 10 kilometers. Photo: earthquake.usgs.gov A magnitude-7.6 earthquake shook the Caribbean Sea southwest of the Cayman Islands Saturday (February 8, 2025), according to the US Geological Survey, and some islands and countries urged people near the coastline to move inland in case of a tsunami.The quake struck at 6:23 pm local time in the middle of the sea and had a depth of 10 kilometers, the USGS said. Its epicenter was located 130 miles (209 kilometers) south-southwest of George Town in the…

UFC 312: DU PLESSIS vs STRICKLAND 2 takes place live from Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney Olympic Park, New South Wales, Australia on February 8, 2024. The main card starts at 10pm ET/7pm PT on ESPN+ PPV. The prelims will be available at 8pm ET/5pm PT on ESPN2 and ESPN+. The early prelims kick off at 6:30pm ET/3:30pm PT on ESPN+ and UFC FIGHT PASS. Main event and co-main event are scheduled for five rounds. All other bouts scheduled for three rounds. Prelim Results | Official Scorecards | Order PPV UFC 312: Du Plessis vs Strickland 2 Results Rongzhu defeats…