Croatia players celebrate their win via a penalty shootout during the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 quarter final match between Croatia and Brazil at Education City Stadium on December 09, 2022 in Al Rayyan, Qatar. (Photo by Justin Setterfield/Getty Images)

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UPDATED 2:11 PM PT – Friday, December 9, 2022

Croatia has pulled an upset and won against tournament favorite Brazil to advance to the FIFA semi finals on Friday.

With a stagnant full time, Brazil’s Neymar went on to score the first goal of the game in overtime. Croatia scored the equalizer to tie up the game in the 117th minute. This forced the game to go into penalty kicks. Croatia scored four penalty kicks compared to Brazil’s two.

Croatia’s goalkeeper, Dominik Livakovic, had 10 saves in the game. A highlight of Livakovic’s was when he stopped Rodrygo’s penalty kick during the shootout. This move was crucial in helping them beat the favored Brazilian team.

“It’s one of our greatest wins,” Croatia’s coach Zlatko Dalic said. “We have confidence in ourselves. Croatia is a surprise indeed, but this should have become less surprising.”

The Croatian team will now go on to advance to face either Argentina or the Netherlands in the semi-finals. This is the country’s second time in a row advancing to the semi-finals. During the last FIFA World Cup in 2018, Croatia was the runner up to France.

RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel speaks during a press conference at the Republican National Committee headquarters on November 9, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

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UPDATED 1:11 PM PT – Friday, December 9, 2022

The Republican Party of Arizona has officially called for RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel to step down.

The organization’s executive committee passed a unanimous resolution on Thursday urging McDaniel to resign. The committee called on the RNC to elect new leadership in 2023. According to the resolution, McDaniel had publicly told members of the RNC that she would not seek another term.

This comes after the Republican Party’s disappointing performance in the midterm elections, that ended with Senator Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) winning over Herschel Walker (R-Ga.) in Georgia’s Senate runoff election. Warnock’s victory gave Democrats a 51-seat majority in the Senate.

McDaniel is also currently facing challenges from the MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, as well from Conservative Attorney Harmeet Dhillon. Both are critical of her and have officially put in their bids for the position.

Lindell had previously stated that McDaniel should step down as RNC Chair woman or she will be “Leaving the country to be run by the Uni-Party and the Democrats.”

However, McDaniel appears to be on track for re-election after having secured the endorsements of 101 RNC members who will vote in January.