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LONDON (Reuters) - The Formula E electric racing series will carry more of a charge into its third season. While new teams, drivers and venues prepare for the start in Hong Kong next week, the loss-making championship is moving closer to the Formula One model of charging hosting fees for races. “It’s a transition year where we are removing some races and including some new races and of course a lot of things are coming into consideration,” chief executive Alejandro Agag told Reuters on Tuesday....

Although F1 ’s leadership tried to convince him to stay with the series, it has been confirmed by his present team, McLaren that the Spaniard will not return to F1 for the next season. It has been speculated that McLaren will enter IndyCar series along with Alonso where he drove a year ago and was in a winning position until his engine failed. He stated “I made this decision some months ago and it was a firm one,” Alonso said in a statement....

What does it mean to “change the future of Fortnite” While this kind of statement sounds big and exciting, it’s important to point out that it’s also technically meaningless. Nothing planned by Epic could result in changing the future of Fortnite because they control the future of Fortnite. Unless their plan is to develop a system that involves Epic losing significant control over their game, then the future of Fortnite is and always will be a planned sequence of events controlled by a multi-billion dollar company....

Epic Games’ free-to-play battle royale title has XP coins that range in value. Depending on the color, the coins generally range from 5,000 to 15,000 XP. Introduced at the start of Fortnite Chapter 2, the coins have remained on the island ever since, providing another avenue for players to garner more XP. Here are the locations of Fortnite’s XP coins for Week 15: RELATED: Possible Fortnite Season 6 Skins Leaked Online...

Apple’s claims, Fortnite is just a tool to Epic For background information about this ongoing dispute, how it involves Fortnite, and what it means for players across all platforms, make sure to read our other pieces on those topics. With this filing, if Apple is to be believed, then it would seem that Epic has been using its own customers as fuel for their battle against Apple. During their filing, Apple reiterated that Epic can’t be considered “in crisis” as they could, at any point, simply agree to Apple’s terms of service in order to have Fortnite restored to the iOS marketplace....

Each week, Fortnite releases new challenges to keep things fresh and provide players with new ways to earn XP. Assuming players have already wrapped up completing the previous week’s challenges, they may want to move on to this week’s as soon as possible. The list of all nine challenges is as follows. RELATED: Fortnite: Where to Locate a Trask Transport Truck Search Chests at Doom’s Domain (0/7) Eliminations at Dirty Docks (0/3) Drive a car from Slurpy Swamp to Catty Corner in less than 4 minutes without getting out (0/1) Collect Floating Rings at Coral Castle (0/1) In a vehicle, jump through the flaming rings at Salty Springs (0/1) Make a Stark Robot dance (0/1) Destroy Gorgers (0/1) Deal damage to opponents at The Authority (0/500) Deal damage to opponents at Stark Industries (0/500)...

The ruling stemmed from a lawsuit filed in March by New York Attorney General Letitia James against David Elmendorf, who once owned Bumpy’s Polar Freeze in Schenectady. In 2020, Elmendorf was accused of shouting racist epithets and making death threats with both a .22 caliber air rifle and a baton at Black protesters before he claimed he was the victim. He called 911 and said the group had threatened to shoot him....

With the win, the Rangers climbed up to the second place on the points table. They are now just three points behind league leaders Glasgow City. Rangers FC have a terrific record in the 2020/21 SWPL-1, where they have won five of their first six games. They have also scored 19 goals so far, 9 of which came against Motherwell. This is indeed a good moment for Indian football as Bala Devi makes a mark on the international stage....

The 30-year-old Rangers rookie who was incarcerated just seven months ago, entered Friday’s game in the ninth inning with the Rangers trailing 5-0 and promptly retired the meat of the Blue Jays order in 17 pitches — 10 of which clocked in at 96 mph or faster. MORE: Final season stars | HOF to NYC? No way Bush struck out the first batter of the inning, reigning AL MVP Josh Donaldson, before getting Jose Bautista to pop out to second and Edwin Encarnacion to foul out to first....

The Houston native faced felony domestic assault by means of choking and misdemeanor assault for allegedly striking the woman on May 16, 2018. The woman testified at the three-day trial that started on Monday. “I can’t express how happy and relieved I am to be acquitted of these very serious charges,” Charlo said in a statement released to Sporting News. “I was accused of choking and striking a woman, which is a horrible crime that I didn’t commit....

Jewett died in his home in Ripton, Vermont, on January 12, according to his wife, Ellen McKay Jewett, the Associated Press reported. Over a year ago, he was diagnosed with mucosal melanoma. Jewett died with the help of Act 39, the state’s medical-aid-in-dying law that he helped pass 10 years earlier, the VTDigger news website reported. Act 39, also known as the Patient Choice and Control at End of Life Act, permits eligible Vermont residents with terminal diseases to choose to be prescribed a dose of medication that helps them end their lives, according to a document from the Vermont Department of Health....

After The Athletic’s Josh Robbins and Shams Charania reported Friday that the Magic had laid off 31 full-time employees and eliminated 16 open positions because of pandemic-related financial struggles, longtime team beat writer John Denton announced Saturday he was part of the cuts. Van Gundy, who coached Orlando from 2007-2012, responded to Denton’s tweet with sarcasm aimed at the DeVos family, which owns the franchise. MORE: James Harden explains why he wore controversial mask...

Paul Farthing, better known as “Pen,” has been campaigning to get 69 workers from his animal welfare charity Nowzad and 200 rescue animals out of Afghanistan in a plan dubbed Operation Ark. He chartered a privately-funded plane to land at Kabul Airport, but accused the U.K. government of delaying the paperwork to facilitate the evacuation. On Wednesday, U.K. Defense Secretary Ben Wallace confirmed that Farthing can land the plane and evacuate his staff and animals....

Baltimore police officers responded to a report of a shooting at 2:46 p.m. ET in the 1900 block of Braddish Ave. Once authorities arrived, they found Mackall suffering from gunshot wounds to his head and torso. He was taken to a nearby hospital but later died. Current Maryland coach Mike Locksley linked to a story about Mackall’s death in a tweet and added a plea to the community: “Hate seeing headlines like this…....

Opening statements from prosecutors and defense addressed Winslow’s life as a professional athlete. State attorneys portrayed the former NFL and University of Miami football player as someone who made tens of millions of dollars but “took what he wanted,” in reference to prosecutors’ allegations that he raped the women. Winslow’s defense attorneys’ opening argument portrayed the sex with the women as consensual and, according to The Associated Press, asked jurors not to judge the married father for his “cheating ways....

The executive in question is the former president of Nintendo of America, Reggie Fils-Aime, who offered his criticisms of Facebook’s metaverse while speaking with Bloomberg at South by Southwest 2022 in Austin, Texas. His main criticism is Facebook, and its parent company Meta Platforms, has not been “an innovative company” for some time and its success was largely driven by acquisitions of companies like Instagram and Oculus or by being a “fast follower of people’s ideas....

Ex-Florida Rep. David Jolly told the MSNBC show Deadline White House that congressional Republicans were “without virtue” and lacking in “human integrity” during an attack on the party he left last year. The analyst also suggested that the House and Senate GOP had “failed the country and themselves” in the aftermath of the Trump-Ukraine phone call and the ongoing impeachment inquiry. Speaking to Deadline White House yesterday, former Rep. Jolly said: “You just got to be honest, these are, in today’s Republican Party, spineless politicians, rotten to the core....

Flake wrote about Trump’s latest controversy with the Ukraine whistleblower, his feelings about impeachment and the “soul” of the Republican Party in an op-ed for The Washington Post on Monday. “Compelling arguments will be made on both sides of the impeachment question. With what we now know, the president’s actions warrant impeachment,” the former lawmaker wrote. He added that he had “grave reservations” about whether removing Trump is the right decision given the “profound division in the country....

Pervis Payne was resentenced on January 31 to two concurrent life sentences. However, Shelby County Criminal Court Judge Paula Skahan ensured that he might not have to spend his entire life behind bars. In her sentence, she granted Payne eligibility for parole after serving 39 years in prison. Due to him already having served 34, he will be eligible to request parole in five years, or in 2026. Payne was resentenced after previously serving on death row for the 1987 murders of Charisse Christopher and her daughter....

Since this decision, the ATP (the men’s professional league) has yet to suspend its tournaments in China. ATP chairman Andrea Gaudenzi released a statement regarding the Shuai situation, but the ATP declined to answer any questions about whether or not it would suspend China events. “The situation involving Peng Shuai continues to raise serious concerns within and beyond our sport,” Gaudenzi said, via a statement. “The response to those concerns has so far fallen short....