Inside the Washington Capitals’ stunning retool on the fly around Alex Ovechkin

Warren Foegele and Nino Niederreiter scored 48 seconds apart in the opening moments of the third period of Game 2 of the Eastern Conference semifinals Sunday afternoon for the visiting Carolina Hurricanes, who beat the New York Islanders, 2-1, to take a 2-0 series lead at Barclays Center in Brooklyn,

For more than a century, one of Mississippi’s largest and most elaborate Confederate monuments has looked out over the lawn at the courthouse in the center of Greenwood, a Black-majority city with a history of civil rights protests and clashes. Protesters have demonstrated at the base of the towering pillar with six Confederate figures — some residents demanding removal amid a racial reckoning across the country, others advocating for the statue’s protection as a piece of history. Now, after years of debate, a new statue will be erected in Greenwood — one of Emmett Till, the Black 14-year-old who was brutally beaten and shot in 1955 by white men just 10 miles from the city.