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PSG have the edge in the Ligue 1 title race but face seven matches in 23 days

PSG’s win against Nantes gives them a four-point lead on Lens, but now have a gruelling schedule to play through

By Get French Football News

“The title is still in play. Lens aren’t giving up,” warned Paris Saint-Germain captain Marquinhos after his team’s comfortable 3-0 win over Nantes on Wednesday night. Nantes put up a fight early in the match, and even had what would have been an equalising goal ruled out for offside, but they eventually caved to defeat at the Parc des Princes.

With five rounds of games to play, PSG have a four-point lead over Lens, who they meet in the penultimate fixture of the campaign. “This is a tough league but we haven’t had a challenger like this in other years,” added the Brazilian defender. “Lens are really having a great season. It’s good for us. It keeps us working hard and focused until the end of the season. We don’t have time to dwell. We’ll be playing every three days.”

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Authorities arrest man suspected of planning mass shooting at New Orleans festival

Man from North Carolina arrested at Florida hotel with a handgun and about 200 rounds of ammo, authorities say

Authorities say a man suspected of planning a mass shooting at a large New Orleans festival was arrested at a Florida hotel with a handgun and hundreds of rounds of ammunition.

The event was not named, but the New Orleans jazz and heritage festival, commonly known as JazzFest, runs from Thursday through 3 May. The gathering celebrates Louisiana’s music, food and culture, and attracted about 460,000 people last year, organizers said.

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Jérémy Doku: ‘If I add goals I can be the world’s best winger, for sure’

The electric Manchester City forward on his dribbling skills, who is City’s quickest player and the potential for a domestic treble

Pace, aggression and quicksilver trickery: Jérémy Doku is the nightmare for opposition defences who breaks games open for Manchester City. In Saturday’s FA Cup semi-final at Wembley, Southampton’s task will be to try to contain the Belgium winger who has raised his game this season.

The Liverpool head coach, Arne Slot, believes that Doku can be “unstoppable” and Arsenal’s Cristhian Mosquera discovered precisely this in City’s seismic 2-1 win in the Premier League on Sunday, the right-back booked for persistently fouling him at the Etihad Stadium. Yet the 23-year-old is not content. The ambition is to add goals to the sparkling skill set he believes will elevate him above Vinícius Júnior as the world’s best wide forward.

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‘I felt like I’d stumbled on a cheat code’: what is the burned haystack dating method?

Being on dating apps can feel like looking for a needle in a haystack – so Dr Jennie Young devised a technique to burn it down and find better matches

It was 2023, and Dr Jennie Young was sick of online dating. She was looking for a partner, and instead all she found in the apps were inappropriately sexual come-ons and conversations that went nowhere. It felt like looking for a needle in a big, rancid haystack. So one day, frustrated and totally out of ideas, she Googled “how do you actually find a needle in a haystack?”

The answer: burn it down.

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Senate Republicans advance $140bn plan to fund Trump immigration crackdown amid DHS shutdown

Bill clears 50–48 vote to boost ICE and CBP funding as Democrats oppose and shutdown continues

Senate Republicans on Thursday approved a plan to fund Donald Trump’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants for the remainder of his term and pave the way for an end to the ongoing shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

The budget resolution adopted along a near party line vote in the early morning hours sets the stage for Congress to craft legislation allocating as much as $140b to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP), two agencies at the forefront of Trump’s mass deportation agenda that have been without funding since mid-February, when the DHS shutdown began.

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American Airlines says soaring price of jet fuel will cost it $4bn this year

Fuel crisis from Middle East conflict could push carrier into loss as it looks to offset costs with higher fares

The soaring price of jet fuel will cost American Airlines another $4bn this year, the carrier has said, wiping out forecast profits.

The airline, the world’s largest by passengers flown, said the fuel crisis from the US-Israel war on Iran could push it into losses during 2026, having forecast profits approaching $1.8bn before bombing started.

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Rijnmond - Nieuws

Het laatste nieuws van vandaag over Rotterdam, Feyenoord, het verkeer en het weer in de regio Rijnmond

'Grijze' Koevermans weigert spelers af te branden: 'Sparta draait nog steeds prima seizoen'

Verwacht geen genadeloze analyses van Danny Koevermans. Zelfs een dag na de pijnlijke nederlaag van Sparta bij Telstar (4-1) praat hij liever over de mooie goal van Zonneveld dan over het seizoen, dat als een nachtkaars uit gaat.

Vogelwerende netten bij metrostation verdwijnen voorlopig tijdens renovatie

De vogelwering bij het metrostation Spijkenisse Centrum wordt weggehaald. Vorige week bleek dat duiven bij herhaling vast komen te zitten in de netten, maar dat is niet de hoofdreden dat de vogelwering nu verdwijnt. De RET gaat het metrostation renoveren.

Meerkampster Sofie Dokter werd wereldkampioen op de vijfkamp. ‘Maar ik schat brons op de zevenkamp hoger in’

Vorige maand werd Sofie Dokter verrassend wereldkampioen meerkamp op de WK indoor. Daarmee verbaasde de 23-jarige atlete ook zichzelf, omdat ze net een vervelend jaar had afgesloten. „Ik had altijd een stemmetje in mijn hoofd dat zei: maar je was dus niet de beste. Dat is er nu niet.”


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Microsoft gives your Word documents an AI co-author you didn’t ask for

Also rolls out agentic Copilot in Excel and PowerPoint, letting 21st century Clippy lend a... hand

Microsoft is giving Copilot the power to stop suggesting edits and start making them.…