Bundesliga 18. Spieltag: Hoffenheim kassiert erste Saisonniederlage

January 28, 2017

Aufsteiger RB Leipzig hat die TSG Hoffenheim besiegt, die bisher noch kein Spiel in der laufenden Bundesliga-Saison verloren hat. Der Tabellenzweite setzte sich in der heimischen Red Bull Arena in einem spannenden Spiel mit 2:1 (1:1) durch. Nadiem Amiri brachte die Gäste in
der 18. Minute in Führung, Timo Werner (38.) gelang der Ausgleich,
Marcel Sabitzer (77.) der Siegtreffer. Für Hoffenheims Torjäger Sandro
Wagner war die Partie vorzeitig beendet: Vor den Augen auch von
Bundestrainer Joachim Löw sah der bis dahin wirkungslose Torjäger wegen
groben Foulspiels die Rote Karte (60.). RB blieb damit unter
Trainer Ralph Hasenhüttl zu Hause ungeschlagen und feierte den siebten Sieg
in Serie. In der Tabelle bleiben die Leipziger (42 Punkte) drei Punkte hinter Spitzenreiter FC Bayern und vergrößerten ihren
Vorsprung auf Platz drei auf zehn Zähler. Hoffenheim rutschte
auf den vierten Platz (31) hinter
Eintracht Frankfurt (32).
Der FC Bayern
hat gegen Werder Bremen mit 2:1 (2:0) gewonnen und feierte damit den
13. Sieg gegen die Norddeutschen in Serie. Noch nie in der bisherigen
Geschichte der Bundesliga
gewann ein Club gegen einen Verein öfter nacheinander als die Bayern
gegen Werder. Vor 42.100 Zuschauern im ausverkauften
Weserstadion taten sich die Bayern anders als beim 6:0 im Hinspiel
schwer. Arjen Robben (30. Minute) und David Alaba
(45.+1) brachten die Gäste vor der Pause zwar in Führung. Max Kruse
gelang nach dem Seitenwechsel aber der Anschluss für die Gastgeber
(53.). Es war der erste Bremer Treffer gegen die Bayern seit April 2014,
damals noch durch Aaron Hunt. Zu mehr reichte es für die mutig
auftretenden und spielerisch guten Bremer aber nicht.
Der Tabellenletzte aus Darmstadt hat im eigenen Stadion mit 1:6 (0:3) gegen den 1. FC Köln verloren. Während
die Darmstädter Lilien damit unter ihrem neuen Trainer Torsten Frings nur
einen Punkt aus zwei Heimspielen geholt haben und insgesamt seit mehr
als drei Monaten sieglos sind, arbeiten die Kölner weiter an ihrer
ersten Europapokal-Teilnahme seit 1992. Dank eines Eigentores von Aytac
Sulu (32. Minute) sowie der Treffer von Yuya Osako (37./72.), Anthony
Modeste (42.), Miloš Jojić (85.) und Artjoms Rudnevs (89.) kam der FC
vorerst bis auf einen Punkt an Platz sechs heran. Das Darmstädter Tor
schoss Neuzugang Sidney Sam in der 66. Minute per Foulelfmeter.
Der FC Ingolstadt hat dem Hamburger SV im Abstiegskampf der
Fußball-Bundesliga eine Niederlage zugefügt. Die Hamburger
verloren bei den Oberbayern nach einer schwachen Leistung mit 1:3 (0:2) und rutschten auf einen
direkten Abstiegsplatz ab. Die Ingolstädter
rückten zum Rückrundenstart vor 14.549 Zuschauern durch die Treffer von Pascal Groß (14.
Minute), Markus Suttner (22.) und Almog Cohen
(47./Foulelfmeter) mit nun zwei Punkten Vorsprung auf den HSV auf den
Relegationsrang vor. Das Tor von Kapitän Gotoku Sakai (63.) war zu wenig
für die Hamburger.
Der ersatzgeschwächte FC Augsburg hat sich mit einem
überraschenden 2:1 (1:1) beim VfL Wolfsburg im Kampf gegen den Abstieg wichtige Punkte geholt. Halil Altintop (25.
Minute) und Dominik Kohr (69.) nutzten
schwere Abwehrfehler der Wolfsburger. Vor 24.811 Zuschauern traf nur Mario Gomez (4.) – allerdings aus
Abseitsposition – für die im Winter für bislang 30 Millionen Euro
aufgerüsteten Wolfsburger. Das Team von Trainer Valérien Ismaël
verpasste damit nicht nur den erhofften vierten Sieg in Serie, sondern
muss in der Tabelle nun wieder nach unten schauen. Mit 21 Punkten
zogen die Augsburger am VfL vorbei auf Rang zwölf. Wolfsburg blieb damit
auch im sechsten Heimspiel in Serie gegen Augsburg sieglos.
Eintracht Frankfurt hat den Hoffnungen des FC Schalke 04 auf Anschluss an die Europapokalplätze einen erneuten Dämpfer verpasst. Die Frankfurter Mannschaft von Trainer Niko Kovac gewann am Freitagabend in Gelsenkirchen und schob sich durch den Sieg mit 32 Punkten zumindest für eine Nacht auf Platz drei der Fußball-Bundesliga. Vor 60.885 Zuschauern traf Torjäger Alexander Meier in der 33. Minute mit seinem fünften Saisontor. Für die Eintracht war es der erste Sieg bei Schalke seit dem 22. Mai 1999. Schalke bleibt als Zehnter im Mittelfeld der Tabelle.
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Merkel mit knapp 96 Prozent als CDU-Direktkandidatin nominiert

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January 28, 2017

Die CDU-Basis in Vorpommern hat die deutsche Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel am Samstag als Direktkandidatin für die Bundestagswahl im Herbst 2017 nominiert. Die CDU-Vorsitzende, die persönlich an der Parteiveranstaltung in Grimmen teilnahm, erreichte in geheimer Abstimmung 165 von 173 Stimmen und damit ein Zustimmungsergebnis von 95,9 Prozent.
Bei der Nominierung vor vier Jahren war sie noch auf 100 Prozent gekommen. Seit ihrer ersten Nominierung 1990 hat Merkel immer das Direktmandat in dem Ostseewahlkreis geholt, zu dem die Insel Rügen, Stralsund und seit 2013 auch Greifswald gehören. Bei der jüngsten Bundestagswahl 2013 gewann sie den Wahlkreis mit 56,2 Prozent der Erststimmen. Diesmal will ihr die AfD das Direktmandat abjagen. Als Kandidaten hat der Landesverband seinen Vorsitzenden, Landtagsfraktionschef Leif-Erik Holm, bestimmt.
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Empörung über Melania Trump auf mexikanischer "Vanity Fair"

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January 28, 2017

In Mexiko sorgt ein Foto von US-Präsidentengattin Melania Trump auf dem Cover der mexikanischen “Vanity Fair” für Empörung. Inmitten der schwersten diplomatischen Krise zwischen den beiden Nachbarländern seit Jahrzehnten veröffentlichte das Magazin am Freitag die Titelseite seiner Februar-Ausgabe: Die First Lady der USA rollt darauf lächelnd eine silberne Kette wie Spaghetti auf einen Löffel auf.
Das Bild sorgte in Mexiko für empörte Reaktionen (siehe Tweet mit Cover-Foto unten). Viele Internetnutzer nannten das Foto “erniedrigend” und unterstellten der “Vanity Fair”-Redaktion “schlechten Geschmack”. Die bekannte Intellektuelle Denise Dresser bedankte sich im Kurzbotschaftendienst Twitter ironisch für das Titelbild. Es sei ein “tolles Beispiel für Feingefühl, Einfühlungsvermögen, Patriotismus und redaktionelle Intelligenz”.
Die “Vanity Fair”-Redaktion räumte in einer Erklärung ein, das Cover in einem “schwierigen Moment” veröffentlicht zu haben. Das Magazin folge damit aber lediglich seiner Linie, “einen unabhängigen und kritischen Blickwinkel auf aktuelle Ereignisse und die beteiligten Personen” zu vertreten.
Das Foto der dritten Ehefrau von US-Präsident Donald Trump war im April 2016 bereits auf der Titelseite des Magazins “GQ” erschienen. Beide Zeitschriften gehören zum Verlagshaus Conde Nast.
Trump und sein mexikanischer Kollege Enrique Pena Nieto hatten sich im Streit um den Bau einer Grenzmauer in den vergangenen Tagen einen heftigen Schlagabtausch geliefert. Trump will, dass Mexiko die Milliardenkosten für die Mauer entlang der 3200 Kilometer langen Grenze übernimmt. Pena Nieto lehnt das kategorisch ab. Wegen des Streits war ein ursprünglich für kommenden Dienstag geplanter Besuch Pena Nietos in Washington geplatzt. Einen neuen Termin gibt es bisher nicht.
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Randy Hollis: All-Star selections turned out just the right way for Jazz

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January 28, 2017

SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Jazz, it seems, got precisely what they needed when it came to this year’s NBA All-Star selections.
Gordon Hayward, their seventh-year forward, received the coveted opportunity to play in the All-Star Game, while Rudy Gobert, the fourth-year center whose career trajectory has taken an incredible upswing over the past two years, did not.
For the Jazz, it’s essentially a best-of-both-worlds situation, and here’s why.
Hayward, Utah’s leading scorer and best all-around player, was voted in by the coaches to be a reserve for the Western Conference All-Star squad that will face their Eastern Conference counterparts on Feb. 19 in New Orleans.
For a player averaging 21.8 points, 5.7 rebounds and 3.4 assists per game like Hayward is, an All-Star bid seems like a no-brainer.
Still, for a guy who’s approaching free agency this summer, to be chosen for his first All-Star appearance should serve as one more reason why Hayward, when it’s all said and done, will wind up staying in Utah.
After all, there was some speculation that Hayward might be left off the All-Star squad again this year, perhaps giving credence to the theory that it’d be difficult for anybody from Utah, which hadn’t had an All-Star selection since 2011, to make the cut anymore.
Instead, Hayward did indeed earn the honor and will represent the Jazz in the All-Star Weekend’s annual grand finale next month.
And now he realizes that playing in Utah is not detrimental to receiving the kind of recognition that he has yearned for and, when it comes time for him to choose where he wants to continue his career, getting the All-Star nod might be one more factor in his decision to stay put.
The fact that the Jazz can pay him more money for more years than anybody else, along with the team’s resurgence as a factor in the Western Conference playoff race and the highly likable group of players and coaches they’ve assembled together, are likely the most important reasons Hayward might decide he wants to continue playing in Utah.
But finally getting to the All-Star Game for the first time certainly can’t hurt, either.
As for Gobert, whose superb performance this season would definitely warrant an All-Star selection of his own, being left off the team will only serve to further motivate the big Frenchman.
Even though his steady improvement on both ends of the court has been nothing short of incredible over the past two years, the All-Star snub, if you want to call it that, will simply enlarge that giant-sized chip that Gobert’s always had on his shoulder ever since being taken by the Denver Nuggets with the No. 27 selection in the 2013 NBA draft.
Why do you think Gobert wears jersey No. 27? To remind himself, and everyone else, that he was the 27th pick in the draft — and to prove to us all that for him to go that late in the draft was a huge mistake.
With the way he’s played and improved the past two seasons, nobody would argue with that assessment now.
It didn’t always look that way, of course. After being traded to the Jazz in a draft-day deal, Gobert spent some time playing for Utah’s D-League affiliate as recently as a couple of years ago.
But when the Jazz eventually decided to make Gobert their starting center ahead of lottery pick Enes Kanter, and subsequently shipped the disgruntled Kanter off to Oklahoma City in a February 2015 trade, Gobert’s career path has continued to be mighty darned impressive.
This season, he’s averaging 12.8 points, 12.6 rebounds and an NBA-best 2.6 blocked shots per game. Gobert ranks fifth in the league in rebounding, second in field goal percentage, and has the fourth-most double-doubles in the league — not bad for a guy who was once thought of as a long-term project.
But Gobert’s work ethic, determination and self-confidence has served him well, transforming him into one of the NBA’s best centers and arguably the best rim protector in the league today.
Little more than a week ago, he put up a 27-point/25-rebound performance in a win over Dallas, and he had a stretch of 30 consecutive games with at least 10 rebounds — a mark that only four other NBA players have achieved since the 1997-98 season.
Perhaps an All-Star selection would’ve made Gobert feel like he had indeed “arrived” as an NBA star, that all his hard work had paid off and perhaps he could let up a little bit now.
But Utah coach Quin Snyder said he knows Gobert will definitely not back off. Instead, with Gobert’s “I’ll show you” attitude fueled even further by this year’s All-Star snub, the Jazz coach is sure Gobert will handle the All-Star selection process in the most productive way possible by continuing to work his tail off in his unyielding quest to improve and keep proving the doubters wrong.
“I just control what I can control and keep getting better and make sure it’s not an option (to leave him off the All-Star team) in the future,” Gobert said. “ That’s the kind of thing that probably will make me better. ”
Wow, a Gobert who’s even better than this one? That’s gotta be a mighty scary predicament for NBA opponents.

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Watch the Sundance Film Festival Awards Live Stream

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January 28, 2017

5:30 PM PST 1/28/2017
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Fans who aren’t able to attend the frosty 2017 Sundance Film Festival Awards in person can watch the lauded stars, films and filmmakers receive their prizes in real time via live stream.
The Utah-based indie film festival is streaming its annual awards ceremony, which kicked off at 6 p.m. PT Saturday. The ceremony is hosted by actress and Daily Show alum Jessica Williams.
The winners are chosen by four juries of film and culture leaders. Additional audience award winners are selected by Festival-goers and will be revealed for the films in the U. S. and World Competitions and NEXT.
Watch the stream below.

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Nieoficjalnie: IPN 31 stycznia ogłosi informację dot. teczki TW "Bolek", opinia biegłych ma potwierdzać współpracę Wałęsy

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January 28, 2017

Źródła PAP “nie określiły jakiego okresu miałaby dotyczyć ta współpraca”.
Wałęsa: jest to kłamstwo
– Jest to kłamstwo. Mam nadzieję, że kiedy sądy będą właściwe, będzie to udowodnione – powiedział Wałęsa, pytany przez PAP o nieoficjalne informacje nt. opinii Instytutu Sehna.
W rozmowie z Polsat News były prezydent stwierdził, że “to są materiały zrobione”. – Obecni decydenci nie przyjmują ani dowodów, ani świadków, ani faktów. Oni mają swoją prawdę i chcą ją udowadniać. Przyjdzie czas, że udowodnimy im faktyczną prawdę – powiedział.
“1000 stron”
Jak dowiedziała się nieoficjalnie PAP w źródłach zbliżonych do Biura Prezesa IPN oraz do Kolegium IPN, opinia ws. dokumentów z teczki TW “Bolka”, które znaleziono po śmierci gen. Czesława Kiszczaka w jego domu, potwierdza współpracę Lecha Wałęsy ze Służbą Bezpieczeństwa. Opinia liczy ok. tysiąca stron. Według źródeł PAP tylko co do paru dokumentów zgłoszone są wątpliwości, nie mają jednak one znaczenia dla tej oceny.
Konferencja we wtorek
Zgodnie z wcześniejszymi informacjami, opinię w sprawie dokumentów z teczki TW “Bolka” biegli Instytutu Ekspertyz Sądowych im. Jana Sehna w Krakowie mieli wydać do 31 stycznia 2017 r. IPN podał wcześniej, że wiąże się to “ze znaczną ilością materiału dowodowego podlegającego badaniu”.
Opinia publiczna pozna ją we wtorek na zorganizowanej przez IPN konferencji prasowej.
Instytut Sehna prowadzi badania z dziedziny pisma porównawczego dotyczące teczki TW “Bolek” od maja 2016 r. W teczce jest m.in. odręcznie napisane zobowiązanie do współpracy z SB, podpisane: Lech Wałęsa “Bolek”. Były prezydent zanegował autentyczność dokumentów przejętych przez IPN od wdowy po gen. Czesławie Kiszczaku.
Śledztwo białostockiego IPN
Ekspertyzę teczki TW “Bolka” zlecono w ramach śledztwa prowadzonego przez białostocki pion śledczy IPN w sprawie podejrzenia poświadczenia nieprawdy przez funkcjonariuszy SB w dokumentach “Bolka”, w celu osiągnięcia korzyści majątkowej lub osobistej. Wszczęto je w lutym ub. roku, po pierwszych wypowiedziach Wałęsy o sfałszowaniu akt z teczki, m.in. pokwitowań odbioru pieniędzy. Po tym jak w kwietniu Wałęsa zanegował autentyczność okazanych mu dokumentów rękopiśmiennych TW “Bolka” z teczki, IPN zlecił ekspertyzy z dziedziny pisma porównawczego.
PAP

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Trump shuts door on refugees, but will the US be safer? ::

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January 28, 2017

Posted 5:22 p.m. today
Updated 5:24 p.m. today
By ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump says his halt to immigration from seven Muslim-majority nations and ban on refugees is being done in the name of national security. But it’s not clear that these measures will help prevent attacks on American soil, and they could wind up emboldening extremists who already view the U. S. as at war with Islam.
The list of countries does not include Saudi Arabia, where the majority of the Sept. 11 hijackers were from, and recent high-profile acts of deadly extremist violence have been carried out either by U. S. citizens or by individuals whose families weren’t from the nations singled out.
The admissions ban announced Friday also does not directly address a more urgent law enforcement concern: homegrown violent extremists already in the United States who plot their attacks without any overseas connections or contacts.
“The primary terrorism-related threat facing the U. S. today comes from individuals living here who become inspired by what they see on the internet who carry out attacks independent of any terrorist organization,” said John Cohen, a former Department of Homeland Security counterterrorism official who worked in government under Democratic and Republican administrations and who has been involved in refugee vetting policy.
The FBI has for years been concerned by the prospect of airplane bomb plots and terrorists dispatched from overseas to commit violence in America. But the ascendancy of the Islamic State, and the group’s ability through slick and easily accessible propaganda to reach followers in all corners of the country, has been a more immediate challenge — and a more realistic danger — for counterterrorism officials.
“Dealing with that threat should be a top priority for this administration,” Cohen said.
The executive order suspends refugee admissions for 120 days and bars all immigration for 90 days from Muslim-majority countries with terrorism concerns: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.
It indefinitely bars the processing of refugees from Syria, a country that’s been of particular alarm to the FBI even though the number of Americans who have looked to travel there to fight with the Islamic State has been dwindling.
But the culprits of recent deadly terror attacks aren’t linked to the countries singled out by Trump’s order.
Omar Mateen, the man responsible for the Orlando nightclub shooting, the deadliest terror attack in the U. S. since the Sept. 11 attacks, was born in New York to Afghan parents.
Syed Rizwan Farook, who took part in the December 2015 San Bernardino attack, was born in Chicago. His wife, Tashfeen Malik, had been living in Pakistan and visiting family in Saudi Arabia before she passed the background check and entered the U. S.
The brothers who bombed the Boston Marathon were ethnic Chechens who had been living in the U. S.
In general, Islamic extremists have accounted for a minuscule amount of the roughly 240,000 murders since Sept. 11, 2001.
Charles Kurzman, a sociology professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who has studied the issue, said his research shows that people with ancestry from the seven nations in the executive order have accounted for only a small fraction of extremist-related arrests and disrupted plots since Sept. 11.
“I can only conclude that this is whipping up fear and hostility toward Americans who have family background from these countries,” Kurzman said.
Still, while refugees are subject to screening — including in-person interviews, checks with law enforcement databases and collection of biometric data, when available — the process is not perfect.
FBI counterterrorism officials have long expressed concern about the lack of background information on refugees from Syria, a home base of the Islamic State, and Director James Comey has said that he could not guarantee a mistake-free vetting process.
There have been isolated incidents of refugees later accused in terror-related plots.
An Iraqi refugee who entered the U. S. in 2009, for instance, pleaded guilty in Houston in October to attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State. Two Iraqi refugees who lived in Kentucky are now in prison after having been convicted in a plot to send sniper rifles, Stinger missiles and money to al-Qaida operatives waging an insurgency back home.
And the man accused in the November car-and-knife attack at Ohio State University was a refugee originally from Somalia who, as an adolescent, moved with his family to the United States in 2014 after living in Pakistan.
Though not immune from lapses, the screening process has improved over the years, Cohen said. He said he was concerned that the refugee ban could deter Muslim-majority countries from cooperating with the U. S. on policy matters and could embolden an extremist already bent on violence.
“That’s something,” Cohen said, “that law enforcement folks are going to be factoring into their violence prevention efforts. ”
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Japan PM Abe to visit US, meet with Trump

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January 28, 2017

White House press secretary Sean Spicer confirmed the news on Twitter shortly after the two leaders had their first phone call since Trump was inaugurated earlier this month.
“During call with Japanese Prime Minister Abe @POTUS invited him to a meeting at White House on February 10th,” Spicer tweeted.
The meeting would be Abe’s second visit with Trump following the election. He also visited Pearl Harbor last month to commemorate the attack’s 75th anniversary.
Trump startled many US Asian allies when he said during his campaign that Japan should potentially develop its own nuclear weapons to defend itself. A readout from the White House on Saturday said the two discussed North Korea and a desire to “deepen the bilateral trade and investment relationship. ”
A high-ranking Japanese official told journalists that the phone call lasted approximately 45 minutes and did not involve a discussion about trade negotiations to replace the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the trade deal that Trump pulled the US out of. Japan was one of the countries involved in the deal’s negotiations.
The statement also said the two discussed Secretary of Defense James Mattis’ planned visit to Japan that is scheduled to begin on Wednesday.
When the leaders first met in November at Trump Tower in Manhattan, Abe said he had a “very candid discussion” with Trump and felt that he could maintain a “relationship of trust” between them.

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No. 9 North Carolina outhustled by Miami, 77-62 ::

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January 28, 2017

Posted 4:54 p.m. today
Updated 4:57 p.m. today
By STEVEN WINE, AP Sports Writer
CORAL GABLES, Fla. — North Carolina coach Roy Williams’ team trailed by double figures in the second half against Miami when there was a scramble for a rebound.
Like the game, it wasn’t much of a contest.
“The ball was lying on the floor, and we didn’t have anybody dive for it,” Williams said. “They got it and made a 3. That was a big play. ”
So it went for the No. 9-ranked Tar Heels, who were outhustled and outscored by Miami. Freshman Bruce Brown needed only 11 shots to score a career-high 30 points, and the Hurricanes deployed a swarming zone defense Saturday to upset the Tar Heels 77-62, ending their seven-game winning streak.
“It was a big-time kicking of our rear ends,” Williams said. “They were more aggressive in everything they did. ”
The Tar Heels’ point total was a season low and 27 below their average, and they shot only 35 percent. The Hurricanes repeatedly got their hands on the ball against the taller Tar Heels, especially in the lane.
Miami also had a 41-36 edge in rebounding against the Tar Heels, who lead the nation in that category.
North Carolina (19-4, 7-2 Atlantic Coast Conference), which had climbed atop the league standings with its winning streak, was playing for the second time in less than 48 hours and looked it.
“It’s not like this loss counts as 20,” forward Kennedy Meeks said. “We’ve got a lot of season left. ”
Miami (14-6, 4-4) beat a ranked team for the first time this season.
“We’re one of the best teams in the country,” guard Ja’Quan Newton said. “We’ve just got to get a couple more wins like this. ”
The Tar Heels had scored at least 85 points in a school-record seven consecutive league games, but that streak was doomed by a season-low first-half point total. They missed 18 of their final 19 shots and trailed 39-22 at halftime.
Williams subbed for his entire lineup at one point in the second half, but no combination worked. The Tar Heels played without injured swingman Theo Pinson.
Brown’s point total was the highest by a Hurricanes freshman since they joined the ACC. He had 23 points before he missed a shot, and finished 8 for 11, including four 3-pointers. He also had five assists and two of Miami’s eight steals.
“Brown was tremendous,” Williams said. “We couldn’t keep him from getting to the basket, and when we backed off, he made 3s. ”
Newton added 18 points and seven rebounds for the Hurricanes, whose biggest lead was 55-33. The Tar Heels were never closer than 11 after that.
North Carolina went 7 for 24 from 3-point range after sinking a season-high 14 baskets from beyond the arc in Thursday’s win over Virginia Tech .
Justin Jackson led the Tar Heels with 21 points. Guard Joel Berry II failed to shoot the Hurricanes out of their zone, going 0 for 8 and scoring two points, 13 below his average.
“They got back into their zone quick, and I don’t think we did a good job of attacking them,” Berry said.
The zone was a surprise, even to the Hurricanes. It wasn’t in their game plan, but coach Jim Larranaga switched to it after his team fell behind 11-2.
Larranaga was amused to hear his players claim they work on the zone a lot.
“They say we practice it every day,” he said. “We practice it once every two weeks. ”
It worked anyway. Miami outscored North Carolina 20-2 during a 12-minute span, and the Tar Heels went the final 8:36 of the first half without a basket.
INJURY REPORT
Pinson sat out after injuring his right ankle in Thursday’s win over Virginia Tech. He wore a boot Saturday, and no timetable for his return has been disclosed.
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North Carolina’s frustration boiled over when guard Berry received a technical foul. “I’m better than that,” he said. “I let my team down. It won’t happen again. ”
Williams said he believes the technical was the first on one of his players since at least 2012.
“Not acceptable,” he said.
BIG PICTURE
North Carolina: The Tar Heels fell to 8-3 against the Hurricanes in Miami.
Miami: The Hurricanes improved to 5-4 against North Carolina under Larranaga. The win was the fifth for the Hurricanes against a Top Ten ACC team under Larranaga.
GUEST SPEAKER
NFL Hall of Fame quarterback Jim Kelly, who played for the Hurricanes, spoke to the crowd at halftime.
“I always consider my favorite place — and always will — the University of Miami,” Kelly said.
UP NEXT
North Carolina will try to bounce back at home against Pittsburgh on Tuesday.
Miami plays host to another top 10 team — No. 6 Florida State — on Wednesday. Larranaga is hoping for another big crowd.
“I don’t want to tell the students who have night class to cut,” he said, “but maybe they can come for the second half. ”
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Explainer: What does Donald Trump's order on 'extreme vetting' mean?

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January 28, 2017

U. S. President Donald Trump said on Friday his administration wants more rigorous screening of refugees and visitors from certain countries to prevent terrorist attacks.
Here is what Trump’s order on “extreme vetting” – denounced by civil rights groups as discriminatory – includes.
Temporary suspension of visas for certain countries
The order bars the entry of foreign nationals from certain countries for 90 days. While no countries are specifically named in the order, it refers to a statute that would apply to seven Muslim-majority nations: Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia, Yemen and Iraq. There is an exception for certain types of visas, including for diplomats and the United Nations.
The temporary halt is aimed at giving the Department of Homeland Security, the State Department and the Director of National Intelligence time to determine what information is needed from each country to ensure that visas are not issued to individuals posing a national security threat.
Changes to screening for immigration programs
The order calls for a review to create a single process for screening people entering the country, which could include holding more in-person interviews, searches of an expanded database of identity documents or longer application forms.
Under the current system, some visa applications require interviews but others do not. The government already has extensive databases but some believe they need to be expanded.
The order suspends the Visa Interview Waiver Program, which allows consular officers to exempt some applicants from face-to-face interviews if they are seeking to renew their temporary visas within a year of expiration.
Immigration attorneys say the changes will make even routine applications much more complicated and time consuming and could mean that more people will need assistance to get through the visa process. In an attempt to ensure wait times for interviews are “not unduly affected,” the order calls for the hiring of more consular fellows to work in U. S. embassies abroad.
Restricting refugees
The order calls for the temporary halt of all refugee admissions for four months so the government can study the process and determine if additional checks are necessary, although there will be case-by-case exceptions.
The order also implemented a blanket ban of all Syrian refugees until “sufficient changes” have been made to the refugee program, without giving more details.
After the suspension is lifted, the government will give priority to applicants that are suffering religious-based prosecution, but only if they are minorities in their country.
Trump said in a television interview that the move would protect Christians. It could also protect ethnic minorities like the Yazidis in the Middle East. This could potentially open the door to legal challenges claiming religious discrimination, some legal experts say.
Once refugee admissions resume, fewer will be allowed. The 2017 cap was set at 50,000 people, compared to 85,000 designated by President Barack Obama for 2016.
In a nod to certain states and cities that have objected to refugee resettlement, the order also seeks to give state and local jurisdictions a role in deciding whether or not to allow people to live there.
Completing the “biometric entry-exit tracking system”
The system is aimed at tracking foreign visitors’ arrival and departure using information like finger prints. Former President Barack Obama’s administration had aimed to start implementing biometric exit checks at the country’s largest airports by 2018.
Some experts have said that for the system to work properly, it would need to cover all land, air, and sea ports of entry, which is a major undertaking. According to a 2014 report from the Bipartisan Policy Center the system would be expensive to implement and would “offer mixed value for enforcement objectives. “