Supporting a tradition for US commanders, President Donald Trump will participate in the Army-Navy Saturday match in Philadelphia and officially launch the coin. He will be the tenth president in office to participate in the game, a tradition that began with Theodore Roosevelt in 1901. Trump also participated in 2016 when he was elected president. Barack Obama was the most recent president to participate in the game in 2011. The annual Army-Navy football game, a series between the two military academies, has a long and legendary history that dates back to its first game in 1890. It is It has been played 128 times, especially in Philadelphia, but also throughout the country. Trump should also make a staff announcement this weekend at the game; he advised journalists to deal with the military chief of staff.

The legendary Heisman club will add another member

The Heisman Trophy, presented to the nation's most outstanding college football player, will be awarded on Saturday night in New York. The ceremony will start at 20:00 ET and broadcast on ESPN. The three finalists of the award are the quarterback in Alabama Tua Tagovailoa; Oklahoma quarterback Kyler Murray; and Ohio State quarterback, Dwayne Haskins. All three led their teams in the championships for the conferences as they watched the records collapse. If Murray wins, it will be a repeat for Oklahoma as QB Baker Mayfield - who ended up being the number 1 in the NFL draft - won in 2017. If Tagovailoa wins, he will be the first for Alabama from Derrick Henry's 2015 campaign. If he won Haskins, he would give the Ohio State the eighth victory of Heisman, and the school is the first since Troy Smith won in 2006.

The winter storm could bring snow, sleet, rain in the southern United States.

It is expected that a winter storm that has brought down record downpours in Los Angeles will result in a powerful mix of snow, sleet and freezing rain - perhaps even a tornado or two - as it moves through the southern United States this weekend. Significant delays in airport hubs such as Dallas, Houston, New Orleans and Atlanta could create confusion for air travellers and ripples across the country over the weekend, warned meteorologists. By Saturday, the threat of rain and flood will move in the deep south and south-east. Along the northern edge of the storm, from Missouri to the Carolinas, freezing rain and ice are more likely. Late Saturday and Sunday, the storm is expected to cover the central and southern Appalachians with heavy snowfall, potentially paralyzing the region. Snow and ice are expected to extend from eastern Oklahoma to the southern Appalachians last Sunday.


China is preparing to launch an innovative mission to soften a largely unexplored spacecraft on the far side of the moon, demonstrating its growing ambition of space power to compete. Aboard a Long March 3B rocket at the beginning of Saturday. The far side of the moon, known as the dark side because it faces the Earth, remains relatively unknown, with a different composition from the sites on the near side where the previous missions have landed. With its Change 4 mission, China hopes to be the first country to successfully undertake such a landing.

Tourist sites in Paris to close between fears of protest


The Eiffel Tower has announced that Saturday will be closed to visitors because of the protests called in the French capital by the movement of yellow jackets. Several museums and other cultural sites will close their doors fearing a repetition of unrest in central Paris last weekend. Since the riots began on November 17 in response to a sharp increase in diesel taxes, four people were killed in incidents related to the protest. Now the demands of the "yellow jacket" movement, called for the fluorescent safety garments that French motorists keep in their cars, are pressing for a wider range of benefits. President Emmanuel Macron met on Friday evening with about 60 anti-riot agents who will be deployed in Paris. He made the visit without warning, without the press, to a fort used as military accommodation in Nogent-sur-Marne, east of Paris, and thanked the officers for their work.