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The San Jose Sharks made a push in the third period but could not overcome a pair of puck-handling miscues in a 4-1 loss to the Tampa Bay Lightning on Tuesday to finish off a four-game road trip.
Sharks winger Tyler Toffoli scored the opening goal at the 14:37 mark of the first period off assists from William Eklund and Alexander Wennberg. But the Lightning responded with four straight goals, including one just 33 seconds after Toffoli’s goal, as winger Nikita Kucherov pounced on a turnover by defenseman Sam Dickinson and fed Anthony Cirelli, who found Brandon Hagel with a diagonal seam pass for a tap-in goal.
With the Lightning leading 2-1 on a goal by Cirelli at the 1:49 mark of the second period, Sharks goalie Yaroslav Askarov couldn’t connect on a short pass to defenseman Vincent Desharnais from behind the net. Gage Goncalves got the loose puck to Dominic James, who found an open Jake Guentzel in front of the net. He beat Askarov for his 22nd goal of the season at the 3:17 mark.
Askarov finished with 16 saves and now has just one win in his last five starts. His counterpart, Andrei Vasilevskiy, had 22 saves for the Lightning, including nine in the third period.
Overall, the Sharks’ road trip went about as expected. They beat the teams (Washington, Florida) that are around or below them in the NHL’s overall standings and lost to two of the best teams (Detroit, Tampa Bay) in the Eastern Conference.
The 4-2 loss to the Red Wings and Tuesday’s result came in the second half of a back-to-back. The Sharks have now lost three straight games in the second half of back-to-backs and are 3-6-1 in such situations on the year.
Still, holding serve with a 2-2-0 record on a challenging four-game trip isn’t the end of the world for the Sharks, who entered Tuesday in third place in the Pacific Division.
The Sharks returned to San Jose right after the game and will host the New York Rangers on Friday.
The Sharks were looking for a better result against Tampa Bay after they were hammered 7-3 by the Lightning in a testy affair on Jan. 3 at SAP Center.
In that game, Tampa Bay took a 3-0 lead just 6:46 into the first period as they chased Askarov from the net. Alex Nedeljkovic replaced Askarov but allowed four goals in the second period, with the Lightning scoring its seven goals on just 26 shots.
The win by Tampa Bay in San Jose was its seventh in what would become an 11-game winning streak. After a 3-2 overtime loss to the St. Louis Blues on Friday and a 4-1 win over the Dallas Stars on Sunday to finish a five-game road trip, the Lightning carried a 13-game point streak into Tuesday, good enough for a tie atop the Atlantic Division.
“This is probably the best team in the league right now, the hottest team in the league,” coach Ryan Warsofsky said to the Sharks Audio Network of the Lightning. “They’re dangerous in a lot of different ways. We’ve got to take the game in five-minute segments, and we can’t get too high or too low.
“Just stay within ourselves and play for each other like we’ve been doing.”The Sharks were coming off one of their most memorable wins of the season on Monday when they beat the two-time defending Stanley Cup champion Florida Panthers 4-1.
Although Vincent Desharnais and Mario Ferraro were among the goal scorers, the game will be remembered for the fight between goalies Nedeljkovic and Sergei Bobrovsky, who went toe-to-toe at the 6:00 mark of the third period.
NOTES: Although rookie winger Igor Chernyshov had two assists in Monday’s win and now has 11 points in 15 games this season, he was a healthy scratch against the Lightning. Forward Adam Gaudette, who was a healthy scratch against the Panthers, was reinserted into the lineup and began the game as the right winger on a line with center Michael Misa and left wing Pavol Regenda. Gaudette, who didn’t have a point Tuesday, now has 10 goals and seven assists in 39 games this season. … Forward Jeff Skinner and defenseman Vincent Iorio were the other healthy scratches. Skinner didn’t play on the road trip, and Iorio has been scratched for three straight games.
Far too often, St. John’s had been on the wrong side of games like this one.
In all five of their losses this season, the Red Storm blew a second-half lead. In three of those defeats, St. John’s led by double-digits at one point.
But on Tuesday night at Madison Square Garden, the Johnnies were the comeback kids.
St. John’s rallied back from a 15-point second-half deficit to defeat Seton Hall, 65-60, and extend its season-long winning streak to five.
The decisive surge was a 20-6 run, during which St. John’s (14-5; 7-1 vs. Big East) pulled ahead, 55-54, on a Dillon Mitchell lay-up with 4:53 remaining.
It remained a one-point game more than three minutes later, until Zuby Ejiofor corralled an offensive rebound, drew a foul and made both free throws, giving St. John’s a 59-56 advantage with 1:21 to go.
On the ensuing possession, Dylan Darling stole the ball from Seton Hall’s Adam Clark and took it back for a dagger lay-up.
Mitchell scored seven of his game-high 17 points in the second half and finished with 11 rebounds.
The win was Rick Pitino’s 899th career victory, tying him with Bob Knight for the fourth-most in Division I history.
Seton Hall (14-5; 4-4 vs. Big East) led, 38-32, at halftime and then opened the second half on a 9-0 run to pull ahead, 47-32.
During that drought, St. John’s missed six consecutive shots and was held scoreless until Bryce Hopkins made a lay-up more than four minutes into the second half.
But shortly after that, the Pirates went five minutes between made field goals. Seton Hall was still up by 11 with 13:04 to go, but that’s when St. John’s started to chip away.
With less than seven minutes remaining, Mitchell made a free throw but missed the second. St. John’s then grabbed three consecutive offensive rebounds to continue that possession, which ended with a Joson Sanon jumper that cut the St. John’s deficit to 53-52.
Mitchell’s go-ahead lay-up less than two minutes later proved to be the game-winner, as St. John never trailed again. Seton Hall shot just 7-of-14 from the free throw line in the second half and missed numerous lay-ups as well.
Picked by the Big East coaches to finish last in the conference, Seton Hall has been among college basketball’s best stories this season. Buoyed by a tireless defense, the Pirates started the season with a 14-2 record, propelling them to No. 25 in last week’s AP poll.
But Seton Hall — the lowest-scoring team in the Big East — suffered back-to-back home losses against UConn and Butler last week and fell out of the latest AP rankings.
Still, Seton Hall’s scrappiness was on full display Tuesday from the opening tip.
About three minutes into the game, St. John’s star Ejiofor and Seton Hall’s Elijah Fisher got tangled up as they fought for a rebound, and they continued to wrestle for the ball as they shuffled from the paint to near half court.
Ejiofor and Fisher were both assessed technical fouls after the tone-setting tussle.
Seton Hall got off to an uncharacteristically hot start on offense, making each of its first three 3-pointers and jumping out to a 20-14 lead.
St. John’s followed with a 9-2 run, during which it scored on four consecutive possessions, the last of which being a Mitchell lay-up that gave the Red Storm their first lead, 23-22.
But that proved to be the Johnnies’ only lead of the half as undersized Seton Hall corralled 12 offensive rebounds, leading to 10 second-chance points. Seton Hall out-rebounded St. John’s, 22-14, before halftime and took a 38-32 lead into the break.
After a 9-5 start to the season, St. John’s has won five games in a row, including road victories at Creighton and Villanova.
Tuesday’s win marked the latest test that St. John’s has passed in its turnaround.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A judge ordered that actor Timothy Busfield be released from jail pending trial on child sex abuse charges, at a detention hearing Tuesday.
The order from state district court Judge David Murphy is linked to accusations that Busfield inappropriately touched a minor while working as a director on the set of the series “The Cleaning Lady.”
Busfield will be supervised upon release by a pretrial services office in Albuquerque, and can leave the state to return home, the judge said.
Busfield, an Emmy Award-winning actor who is known for appearances in “The West Wing,” “Field of Dreams” and “Thirtysomething,” was ordered to be held without bond last week at his first court appearance. Busfield called the allegations lies in a video shared before he turned himself in.
The judge acknowledged evidence that Busfield is accused of crimes that are inherently dangerous and involve children, but said prosecutors didn’t prove that there are no conditions of release that would protect the public’s safety.
“There’s no evidence of a pattern of criminal conduct, there are no similar allegations involving children in his past,” Murphy said. “Rather this defendant self-surrendered and submitted himself to this court’s jurisdiction, demonstrating compliance with the court order for his arrest.”
At the hearing, Busfield was handcuffed and dressed in an orange jail uniform in a New Mexico state district court, while wife and actor Melissa Gilbert watched from the court gallery.
Gilbert was tearful while exiting the courtroom after the judge ordered Busfield’s release.
Gilbert, who played Laura Ingalls in the 1970s to ’80s TV series “Little House on the Prairie,” was on the list of potential witness submitted ahead of the hearing.
Albuquerque police issued a warrant for Busfield’s arrest earlier this month on two counts of criminal sexual contact of a minor and one count of child abuse. A criminal complaint alleges the acts occurred on the set of the series “The Cleaning Lady.”
According to the criminal complaint, an investigator with the police department says the child reported Busfield touched him on private areas over his clothing on one occasion when he was 7 years old and another time when he was 8. The boy’s twin brother told authorities he was also touched by Busfield, but did not specify where. He said he didn’t say anything because he didn’t want to get in trouble.
On Monday, Busfield’s attorneys submitted two brief audio recordings of initial police interviews in which the children say Busfield did not touch them in private areas. The attorneys in a court filing argue that the complaint characterizes the interviews as a failure to disclose abuse, but an “unequivocal denial is materially different from a mere absence of disclosure.”
According to the criminal complaint, one of the boys disclosed during a therapy session that he was inappropriately touched by the show’s director. Those records were obtained by police during the investigation.
Arguing Tuesday for Busfield’s continued detention, Assistant District Attorney Savannah Brandenburg-Koch called evidence of abuse against Busfield strong and specific.
“The boys’ allegation are supported by medical findings and by their therapist,” Brandenburg-Koch said. “Their accounts were specific and not exaggerated.”
She also described a documented pattern of sexual misconduct, abuse of authority and grooming behavior by Busfield over the past three decades. Prosecutors also say witnesses have expressed fear regarding retaliation and professional harm.
“GPS is not going to tell this court if he is around children or talking to witnesses,” Brandenburg-Koch said.
Busfield’s attorneys have argued that the allegations emerged only after the boys lost their role in the TV show, creating a financial and retaliatory motive. The filings detailed what the attorneys said was a history of fraud by both the boys’ father and mother. They cited an investigation by Warner Bros. into the allegations that found the allegations unfounded.
Busfield also submitted letters vouching for his character, and his attorneys say he passed an independent polygraph test.
Legal experts say New Mexico is among a few states that allow polygraph evidence in criminal cases, but a judge has final say over whether one can be used. There are strict requirements for admission.
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The U.S. on Tuesday met one of the key conditions for losing its measles elimination status, more than 25 years after it achieved this distinction and one year into a second Trump administration that has deprioritized infectious diseases.
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SEATTLE — Since junior hockey, Anthony Duclair had never changed anything about his stick. That flex, that curvature — it worked for him, so why touch it?
Except, when the calendar turned to the new year, it was no longer working the same way. Duclair had scored only once in his past 26 games, just four times in the season’s first 39 games and was made a healthy scratch in the Islanders’ first two games of 2026.
This season wasn’t as overtly miserable as last year’s for Duclair — he was healthy, and his relationship with Patrick Roy appeared fine — but he was languishing in the bottom six, showing little sign of recovering his scoring touch.
“At some point, I was tired. I was like, ‘I need to change something,’ ” Duclair said after the Islanders beat the Canucks 4-3 on Monday night. “I just grabbed [Casey Cizikas’] stick after practice.”
And?
“My shot was just unbelievable.
“I was like, ‘Screw it. I’m gonna use it.”
The next game, Duclair scored on his first shot of the night. Then he scored two more times, and assisted two more goals for a five-point performance against the Devils. It was the first five-point hat trick for an Islander in five years, and the best scoring output in a game of Duclair’s career.
So, yeah. He told equipment manager Jason Berger to order him a shipment of sticks to Cizikas’ specifications.
“Totally different model, curve, everything,” Duclair said. “I put my stick in the garbage. I’m using Cizikas’ now.”
Call it a coincidence, call it a placebo, call it whatever you want. But it is working.
In seven games with the new twig, Duclair has seven goals, including two Monday night in Vancouver that served to wake up the Islanders amid a woeful start to the game.
“I feel like he’s shooting with a lot of confidence,” coach Patrick Roy said. “For some reason, he’s positioning [himself] well. He scored two on this trip in the power play in the pocket. I thought that was a really nice shot from the side. Great feed by our guys, he took advantage of it. He deserves credit for that.”
Seven goals, by the way, is as many as he had all of last season.
The Islanders have been challenged for scoring throughout this seven-game trip which ends Wednesday night against the Kraken.
They’re missing Bo Horvat, their leading scorer, and Kyle Palmieri, who potted 24 goals a year ago, and the cracks have started to show.
Even with Horvat set to return from a lower-body injury before the Olympic break (Palmieri is done for the season with an ACL tear), scoring is a need Mathieu Darche may need to address before the trade deadline.
If Duclair can keep up this output and be the top-line player the Islanders thought they were getting a year ago, though, it might change that equation, or at least lessen the urgency a smidge.
His chemistry with Mat Barzal, long dormant since the Islanders spent the 2024 preseason with the two of them together on the top line, has reignited. He’s clicked with Cal Ritchie too, with the pair combining for two power-play goals on this trip, both in similar fashion (and, yes, if Duclair can help spark the power play, that too would be a game-changer for the Islanders).
For now, it’s still too small a sample size to avoid some caution, though Duclair has certainly earned a lasting stay in the top six even when Horvat comes back and pushes someone out.
If it really was as easy as changing up his stick, though, then maybe the Islanders have just solved one of their problems.
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Lindsey Halligan has departed the Justice Department after a federal judge Tuesday barred her from referring to herself as a U.S. attorney in court filings, finding that her continued use of the title “ignores a binding court order” that disqualified her from the position last year.
In a statement posted to social media Tuesday night, Attorney General Pam Bondi confirmed Halligan’s exit, calling her departure a “significant loss for the Department of Justice and the communities she served.”
Bondi also described the “circumstances that led up to this outcome” as “deeply misguided.”
The announcement followed an 18-page ruling Tuesday from U.S. District Judge David Novak, who sits on the federal bench in Richmond, Virginia. Novak ruled that Halligan’s “continued identification of herself as the United States Attorney for this District ignores a binding court order and may not continue,” and ruled that Halligan could face disciplinary proceedings if she continues to use that “improper moniker.”
Novak’s ruling came after a November ruling from U.S. District Judge Cameron Currie found that Halligan’s appointment as interim U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia was invalid and violated the Constitution’s Appointments Clause. She dismissed the cases Halligan had brought against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James. The Justice Department has appealed the ruling.
The statute invoked by the Trump administration to appoint Halligan allows an interim U.S. attorney to serve for 120 days. After that, the interim U.S. attorney may be extended by the U.S. district court judges for the region.
Earlier this month, Novak ordered Halligan to provide the basis for her repeated use of the title of U.S. attorney and explain why it “does not constitute a false or misleading statement,” after she listed herself on an indictment returned in the district in December as a “United States attorney and special attorney.”
Top Justice Department officials defended Halligan’s attempts to remain in her position as a U.S. attorney in court filings, accusing the Trump-appointed judge of “gross abuse of power” and attempting to “coerce the Executive Branch into conformity.”
The filing, signed by Halligan, Attorney General Pam Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, called Novak’s move an “inquisition,” “insult,” and a “cudgel” against the executive branch. The Justice Department argued that Currie’s ruling in November applied only to the Comey and James cases and did not bar Halligan from calling herself U.S. attorney in other cases that she oversees.
However, earlier Tuesday, prior to Bondi’s announcement that Halligan was departing the Justice Department, the DOJ had reversed course, telling prosecutors to stop referring to Halligan as U.S. attorney and to refer to her instead as special attorney going forward, according to a source familiar with the matter. CBS News has reached out to the Justice Department for clarification.
In his ruling, Novak wrote that the Justice Department’s argument “rings hollow,” and “fundamentally misunderstands” the legal issue at question.
“Judge Currie, speaking for all district judges in this District, found Ms. Halligan’s appointment as Interim United States Attorney unlawful and issued two orders dismissing indictments, both of which were premised directly on that rationale,” Novak wrote. “Those Orders, though currently on appeal, have not been overturned or stayed, and thus constitute the law of this District. Having been found by this Court to be unlawfully appointed, Ms. Halligan lacks lawful authority to represent herself as the United States Attorney before this Court.”
Novak also criticized the quality of the Justice Department’s response to his order, stating that it had “unnecessary rhetoric” that “contains a level of vitriol more appropriate for a cable news talk show and falls far beneath the level of advocacy expected from litigants in this Court, particularly the Department of Justice.”
Instead of working through “numerous legal options” that would have allowed her to identify herself as U.S. attorney while the appeal of Currie’s ruling continues, “she elected to simply ignore valid court orders.”
“The Court finds it inconceivable that the Department of Justice, which holds a duty to faithfully execute the laws of the United States even those with which it may have disagreement, would repeatedly ignore court orders, while simultaneously prosecuting citizens for breaking the law,” Novak wrote. “If the Court were to allow Ms. Halligan and the Department of Justice to pick and choose which orders that they will follow, the same would have to be true for other litigants and our system of justice would crumble.”
Halligan is a former insurance lawyer who was a member of President Trump’s legal team and joined Mr. Trump’s White House staff after he won a second term in 2024. In September, Halligan was selected to serve as interim U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia after her predecessor abruptly left the post amid concerns he would be forced out for failing to prosecute James.
She was appointed to her post on Sept. 22 for a total of 120 days, which Novak said expired Tuesday. While Halligan has been nominated by the White House, neither of Virginia’s Democratic senators has signed on to advance the nomination for a vote in the Senate.
Days after she was appointed, Halligan sought and secured a two-count indictment against Comey alleging he lied to Congress during testimony in September 2020. James, the New York attorney general, was indicted on bank fraud charges in early October. Both pleaded not guilty and pursued several arguments to have their respective indictments dismissed, including the validity of Halligan’s appointment and claims of vindictive prosecution.
“The Court recognizes that Ms. Halligan lacks the prosecutorial experience that has long been the norm for those nominated to the position of United States Attorney in this District,” Novak wrote. “Consequently, and in light of her inexperience, the Court grants Ms. Halligan the benefit of the doubt and refrains from referring her for further investigation and disciplinary action regarding her misrepresentations to this Court at this time.”
Also on Tuesday, the chief federal judge in the Eastern District of Virginia posted that the court is seeking applicants to replace Halligan. Federal law says that judges in a district without a Senate-confirmed U.S. attorney are tasked with selecting a replacement, although President Trump could fire whomever the court chooses to succeed Halligan.
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