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Gor Mahia will host the first leg between April 6 and 8 with the return leg scheduled for two weeks later. The winner will qualify for the group stages of the same competition. Gor Mahia was relegated to the Confederation Cup after falling 1-0 on aggregate to Tunisia side Esperance. The last time SuperSport United played against a Kenyan side was way back in 2014 in the same competition, where they eliminated AFC Leopards....

The draw, which took place immediately after its Champions League counterpart in Egypt on Wednesday, also sees APR take on Seychelles topflight side Anse Réunion, while Al-Masry take on Green Buffaloes. Africa Sports have been drawn against FC Nouadhibou and RS Berkane take on Mbour Petite-Côte, while Benni McCarthy’s Cape Town City must travel to Swaziland where they will play Young Buffaloes. The games are scheduled to take place in February 2018, with the first leg coming between February 9-11 and the second leg set for a week later....

Jenner received the Arthur Ashe Courage Award for the bravery she demonstrated as a transgender woman. In April, Bruce Jenner sat down with Diane Sawyer to put a rest to the rumors and acknowledge his transition from male to female. In June, Caitlyn Jenner was introduced to the world. MORE: Remembering best ESPY moments | What’s going on in the ESPYS? | Siri ignores Caitlyn Jenner’s old name Jenner, 65, was once idolized as the greatest athlete in the world after winning gold in the decathlon at the 1976 Olympics....

Temperatures could reach 106 to 112 degrees in Antelope Valley in northern Los Angeles County, according to the National Weather Service (NWS). The heat advisory for the area remains in effect from Tuesday to Friday. Other areas—including Santa Ynez Valley, Ventura County Interior Valleys, Ventura County Coastal Valleys, Santa Monica Mountains, Santa Clarita Valley, San Fernando Valley and San Gabriel Valley—could experience temperatures of 98 to 109 degrees Tuesday into Wednesday....

“We’ve had a four-fer, with COVID, a heat wave, wildfires and the threat of roving power outages,” Janet Upton, a spokeswoman for Napa County and a former deputy director of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire), told NBC News. More than 14,000 firefighters are working to help battle the flames, which have now grown to cover more than 1.25 million acres of the state, an area over four times larger than Los Angeles....

Organizing under the banner of the “California Liberation Collective,” protesters, including undocumented community organizers and immigration attorneys, made their way to Newsom’s house in the morning, before some participants chained themselves to the gate. In video of the demonstration, protesters could be heard shouting “Free them all.” Some protesters held mirror-shaped posters to “hold a mirror” up to what organizer Lisa Knox, an immigration attorney with Centro Legal in Oakland, told Newsweek was Newsom’s “hypocrisy” on immigration policy and racial justice....

Among the largest fires blazing the state are clusters of fires forming the multiple Lightning Complex fires. The LNU Lightning Complex and CZU August Lightning Complex have reached 215,000 acres and 157,475 acres, respectively, with zero percent containment reported for both, according to the latest report by the Cal Fire. Below are the latest updates on the multiple fires forming the Lightning Complex fires. LNU Lightning Complex Acres: 215,000Containment: 0 percentFatalities: 4 civiliansStructures threatened: 30,500Structures destroy: 480Structures damaged: 125...

Paul Grisham misplaced the wallet in 1968 during a 13-month placement on the remote continent. Decades later, it was recovered from behind a locker in a building due to be demolished at the U.S. research base McMurdo Station and has recently been returned to Grisham. Inside was his driver’s license, Navy I.D. and a recipe for the coffee liquor Kahlua. Grisham, from San Diego, also found a beer ration punch card and receipts for money orders sent to his wife....

“Publishing these photographs and videos disproportionately harms people of color and those with mental illness, while also perpetuating stereotypes about who commits crime in our community,” a Sacramento Bee reporter said in an article Thursday. “The policy is effective immediately and will be applied moving forward,” the article stated. Lauren Gustus, the president of the Sacramento newspaper, said the publication has taken steps to “work against long-standing stereotypes” and is working to “elevate the voices of emerging writers from communities we have long underserved....

Yema Khalif and his wife and business partner Hawi Awash were filmed asking why three Tiburon Police officers were questioning them inside their clothing store at 1 a.m. on August 21. In a post on Instagram, Khalif said he, Awash and a friend of theirs were unloading new inventory for their store Yema—which he described as the only Black-owned clothing store in Tiburon—when the officers arrived. “I expressed to him that there was no crime going on and we were going about our business,” Khalif wrote....

Cops arrived at the scene in Oceanside in the early hours of Wednesday morning and gave the 31-year-old male first aid, but he was pronounced dead soon after. Fox 11 has reported police also prevented a vehicle from leaving the vicinity and other suspected burglars were detained, including a second man with a gunshot wound. The He was taken to a local hospital, where his condition was believed to be stable....

Fire information officer Mark Garrett confirmed that the Sequoia trees hadn’t been touched by the fire. “As of right now we don’t have any damage to any of our trees,” Garrett said. The Giant Forest in Sequoia National Park houses around 2,000 of the trees, including the General Sherman Tree, which is believed to be the largest in the world by volume, the AP reported. Garrett said that the complex did recently manage to breach the forest’s perimeter close to a grouping of large trees named the Four Guardsmen, but crews had wrapped their bases in fire-resistant materials and raked away vegetation near the trees that could facilitate further spread....

The bill had been stuck in the Committee on Business, Professions and Economic Development as there has been criticism from the California Medical Association and parents who believe they should be responsible for medical decisions for their children. Wiener on Tuesday said that the legislation “does not appear to have a viable path forward.” For three years, Wiener, a Democrat from San Francisco, has attempted to prohibit some types of surgeries on children born intersex, meaning they have genitalia, reproductive organs or chromosomes that don’t generally fit male or female bodies....

“#MosquitoFire EVAC ORDER: Michigan Bluff north to Foresthill Road, east to Flight Strip, west to Bath Road. EVAC WARNING: Bath Road west to Todd Valley and north of Forest Hill Road to Elliot Ranch. SHELTERS: Foresthill Memorial Hall, Bell Baptist Church, Animal Shelter B Ave,” the Placer County Sheriff’s Office said in a tweet on Wednesday morning. In a video update to residents, Placer County Sheriff’s Office Sergeant Ty Connors said, “Currently, we do have some mandatory evacuations and evacuation warnings....

The downpour came as multiple other areas across Southern California saw heavy rainfall and winter weather that wreaked havoc for pedestrians. One of the hardest hit areas was along the Los Angeles River, where seven inches of rain fell on Tuesday morning just northwest of the city, according to U.S. News and World Report. A flash flood warning was issued for the area by the National Weather Service (NWS) that urged residents to act with caution....

UK held merely a 2-point lead, and the Cardinals had possession of the basketball, which meant a 3-pointer would win the game for Louisville — and wouldn’t that just be a heck of a way to end a day on which so much had gone right for the Kentucky team? MORE: Top 10 Wildcats of all time | Top 10 Cardinals | Best basketball rivalries So Calipari pondered what Rick Pitino might be manufacturing and designed his own counters....

This is a mistake, not because it is unclear whether these murders were motivated by hatred—they were—but because the proposed expansion of policing and domestic counterterrorism legislation, funding and programming focused on curbing hate violence would have done nothing to prevent this violence. Instead, the proposed policies will certainly hurt the same Asian communities we aim to protect. Asian Americans are no strangers to racially motivated murder. From the Chinese Massacre of 1871 to the practice of white Americans hunting Japanese Americans for sport in the 1940s to the murder of Vincent Chin in the 1980s, violence against Asian Americans is quintessentially American....

At the Bayou Classic, Calvin Mills used the famous Southern University marching band to help him propose to his girlfriend Brittany Ramsey. The band got in the formation of “MARRY ME” on the field. Mills is a prominent Southern alum and couldn’t think of a better way to ask for his girlfriend’s hand in marriage. Southern U band spells “MARRY ME,” suspends performance for proposal. pic.twitter.com/lypQsGCFOR The sweetest part was that Mills had Ramsey’s daughter play a part in it....

He posted a picture to Instagram with a lengthy, yet simple, message. MORE: Newtown car crash photos | Injury breakdown | Details of the crash Newton’s injury will force him to miss the Panthers’ home game Sunday against the Buccaneers, but based on the damage caused to the vehicle, it’s a blessing that Newton’s injuries were not more serious. A photo posted by Cam Newton (@cameron1newton) on Dec 12, 2014 at 4:46pm PST