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Why Man City were given a penalty for handball against Everton

Earlier this year, Aleksander Ceferin, president of European Football 's governing body UEFA, admitted: "Nobody in the world understands when there's handball or not." Everton manager Sean Dyche certainly couldn't wrap his head around the decision to award Manchester City a second-half spot kick on Wednesday night. "The penalty , I have no clue," Dyche shrugged after his side fell to a 3-1 loss despite taking the lead against the newly crowned world champions. "I don't think anyone does." Dyche revealed that the Premier League's managers agreed with Ceferin's damning appraisal of the handball law. "We had a Zoom call a couple of months ago," the Everton boss growled, "all of the managers said it is a farce and we don't know why they are giving penalties." Here's a look at how the referee came to this particular decision at Goodison Park. Why were Man City given a penalty for handball against Everton? Pen...

Trump's position on the death penalty and other key takeaways from interview

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Trump was asked by Fox News' Bret Baier about his support for putting drug dealers to death, and Baier cited the case of Alice Johnson, whom Trump freed In a lengthy interview this week, Donald Trump was asked to address his past support for criminal justice reform and COVID-19 vaccine development and restrictions, two major areas where he has been criticized by other conservatives in the 2024 presidential race. While defending his record to Fox News' Bret Baier, Trump also said he's considering skipping the first Republican primary debates because he's the early front-runner with voters, polls show. Elsewhere in the interview, Baier pressed Trump about the events of Jan. 6 and whether Trump would pardon all of the rioters. And when asked about his proposal to implement the death penalty for drug dealers, Trump wavered on how it would apply in specific cases, including for a woman whom he freed from prison while in the White House. Trump's Fox News sit-down m...