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Fellow K-pop star Choi Jong-hoon received a 5-year sentence Friday at Seoul Central District Court, reports The Korea Herald. Earlier this month prosecutors had pushed a judge to sentence Jung to seven years for his role in the scandal that has rocked the South Korean entertainment industry. They also urged five years for Choi. Both were convicted of sex offences and Jung was also convicted of illicitly filming and distributing footage of the assaults via online chat groups....

The brainchild of Russian inventor Mikhail Kalashnikov, the AK47 has been around for 60 years, and for good reason. Cheap to manufacture, with only eight moving parts, it is a marvel of murderous efficiency. It can survive being submerged in water or buried in sand and still fire. In the hands of the Viet Cong, it instantly became the envy of every American serviceman with a much inferior M-16 rifle....

Harris mentioned the conversation during her speech at a Friday evening campaign event for Democratic Virginian gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe. In her speech, Harris marked the race between McAuliffe and his Republican challenger Glenn Youngkin as a choice between visionary progress or “turn[ing] back the clock.” In particular, Harris praised McAuliffe and the state’s Democratic leadership for expanding voting access, implying that Youngkin would support Republican efforts to restrict voting access....

A reporter had asked IOC member Denis Oswald if the committee was aware of the claim given by the 15-year-old Valieva to the Russian Anti-Doping Agency earlier this month about the positive result. Oswald answered that “[h]er argument was this contamination which happened with a product her grandfather was taking.” Last week, it was revealed that Valieva tested positive for the banned substance trimetazidine in December. On Monday, Olympic officials announced she would be allowed to continue competing at the Beijing Games but any medals she might win would be withheld until her doping case is resolved....

The England international has emerged as one of European football’s top strikers, with back-to-back Golden Boots secured in Premier League competition. Those efforts have drawn admiring glances from afar, with interest from leading sides mooted in each passing transfer window. Kane is, however, settled at Spurs – having committed to a new long-term contract in December 2016 – and insists that he has no plans to let talk of big-money moves elsewhere become “a distraction”...

Players who could move in January The England international has had a quite remarkable rise at White Hart Lane, scoring a staggering 57 goals in 96 games for Spurs since his breakthrough into the senior side. Kane previously embarked on a number of loan spells, and played three times in the Premier League for Norwich City, taking his appearance tally to 99 ahead of the New Year’s Day encounter with the Hornets....

Diallo played in just 27 games for the Jayhawks after fighting the NCAA over eligibility issues but NBA executives told The Vertical that Diallo has a chance to be selected in the first round. MORE: SN’s latest NBA mock draft | NCAA was unfair to Diallo At 6-9, Diallo joined Kansas as a five-star recruit and former MVP of the McDonald’s All-American Game. His best game at Kansas was the first game he played after being cleared....

Built with elite talent at every position but the most important, Kansas is endeavoring to build a national championship team with a point guard, Naadir Tharpe, the Jayhawks recruited from the bottom half of the Scout.com top 100. MORE: Game recap | Embiid’s monster day Back in college when he could have been playing for large coin in the NBA, Oklahoma State's Marcus Smart is attempting to carry a wounded team toward the greatness he was so convinced was possible....

Payer told the county’s Board of Commissioners on January 4 “we will have to contract staff outside our staff to be able to give the vaccine” because her nurses “aren’t comfortable with that,” according to a YouTube video of the meeting. “It’s a new technology, we’ve never seen it before, it was only studied in 45 people before it was approved,” she said. “And the companies that have made the vaccine, all liability is gone from them....

“We just can’t get them out,” said Dennis Shelby, CEO of the 15-bed Wilson Medical Center in Neodesha. Dr. Richard Watson, founder of Motient, said Kansas patients are being sent as far as Wisconsin, Illinois, Colorado and Texas. Officials at the Wilson Medical Center recently called 40 other facilities in multiple states trying to find room for a COVID-19 patient. More than a day later, they found an open bed about 220 miles away, but many rural hospitals are forced to muddle through not having enough room or proper resources....

Kansas State is riding high after a dominant 48-0 win over Oklahoma State, a game in which they held one of the better offenses to just 217 total yards on 3.4 yards per play. The Wildcats’ blowout win was the most lopsided shutout victory by any team facing a top-10 opponent since 1966. For a team that’s built on its rushing attack, it was Kansas State’s passing offense that stole the show on Saturday....

On Saturday, West wrote on Twitter that he was running for president, sparking intense debate online. The “Jesus is King” hitmaker tweeted: “We must now realize the promise of America by trusting God, unifying our vision and building our future. I am running for president of the United States!” The move has seen West’s odds of winning the 2020 U.S. Election slashed from 500/1 to 50/1, placing his odds on par with that of Pence, whom Trump has previously said is “100 per cent” his running mate in November’s election....

The 2020 presidential hopeful hit out at the Wisconsin Democratic Party and alleged that they were spying on him. TMZ reports that the “Jesus Is King” rapper responded to a complaint asking officials to block him from the ballot due to allegedly submitting fake signatures. In documents obtained by the publication, West claims the Democrats hired a private investigator to track his signature-gathering street team, which he describes as an “organized effort of harassment and intimidation” against his candidacy....

West, who now goes by Ye, caused a stir in the past week after sharing a video detailing his meeting with Trump and Fuentes at the former president’s Florida estate. In the video, West highlighted how impressed Trump was with Fuentes, a known Holocaust denier and white supremacist. The rapper also removed content featuring far-right commentator Milo Yiannopoulos, who was present at the Mar-a-Lago meeting, and other tweets mentioning Fuentes....

On Twitter, the organization posted a video announcing West’s new title. In the video, it chronicles the long list of missteps the rapper, now legally known as “Ye,” has made. “Kanye West’s threats of violence, hateful conduct, and hate speech all led him to winning this year’s title,” the video reads. “On October 8th, West tweeted out a threat to harm Jews, stating “I’m going death con [Defcon] 3 on JEWISH PEOPLE....

The rapper and former presidential candidate filed a complaint in a Los Angeles court on Thursday claiming that the retail giant is selling fake versions of his Yeezy Foam Runner slides, TMZ reported. While the real version of the unusual sneakers retail at $80, Walmart’s are priced at between $25 and $30. The Walmart versions are listed under the names “Daeful Adult Children Summer Beach Shoes Foam Runner” and “Luxur Unisex Summer Beach Shoes Foam Runner,” and they are available in a variety of colors and patterns....

Everything concerning the Serb Republic is in my hands. I want a free society and a market economy. Our state is a democracy, and we did not commit a single crime. This is a civil war. It is a continuation of the second world war, and there are many things that happened that were not the policy of my command. Our policy was not ethnic cleansing or imprisoning the civilian population....

Police in the city of Changsha, the capital of Hunan Province in central China, arrested one suspect, who was identified only by his last name, Chen. He had suffered burn injuries to both his arms and face. Zhou Mingchen, an officer with the Changsha Public Security Bureau, told Changsha Broadcast and Television that the suspect was “drunk,” and that he tried to gift one of the balloons to a young woman in the same elevator car....

On Tuesday, the Lakers icon started off the essay by stating that he’s a huge fan and supporter of Lakers superstar LeBron James and his personal and philanthropic efforts over the last two decades. “I have written his praises many times in the past and undoubtedly will in the future,” said Abdul-Jabbar. Abdul-Jabbar then went on to refer to James’ comments on September 29 regarding the vaccine as “just plain wrong” and could have the potential to be “deadly, especially to the Black community....

Goal understands that Reds boss Jurgen Klopp has taken the bold call to rest Mignolet, who has started his side’s first four games in all competitions. Liverpool 8/1 with dabblebet to win 2-1 The decision has paved the way for Karius, who struggled last season following his move from Mainz, to seize a big opportunity in Liverpool’s goalkeeping department. Karius, 24, featured as Liverpool’s regular goalkeeper at the start of the 2016/17 campaign but was later dropped for Mignolet after a series of errors between the sticks....