Tony Blair, the British prime minister, arrives at Camp David later this week for a hastily-arranged session with the president. At the top of Blair’s agenda: not the war itself, but the soft stuff that follows after the shooting ends. At a press conference in Downing Street, Blair spent as much time discussing the humanitarian situation in Iraq as the military operations in his opening remarks. Compare that with Bush’s brief speech at the Pentagon where he presented his additional war budget....

“ASSASSIN’S CREED VALHALLA is a return to excellence in the franchise. Massive open world, beautifully designed, with great gameplay. Incredible game,” Carpenter wrote to his roughly 316,000 followers at the time. While many were surprised that the iconic filmmaker, now 73, plays video games, it isn’t some new fascination for Carpenter. He’s been playing video games since the 1990s, when he and his son first started playing Sonic the Hedgehog together on the Sega Genesis, and he hasn’t stopped since....

In recent times, many that choose to learn whether their baby will be a boy or girl prior to the birth, elect to do so with a gender reveal party. This modern phenomenon, and social media trend, involves parents finding out their baby’s sex when either the color blue (for male) or pink (female) appears. The color reveal has been done in many creative ways. It could be by cutting into a cake, firing a confetti canon or, in the case of a recent viral video, popping a balloon....

Some believe that acquiring the wealth of Elon Musk, Bill Gates or other dominant multi-billionaires indicates success. Others may counter that true success comes from satisfying one’s personal goals and discovering the art of happiness. But before we dive into factors that drive success, let’s re-consider the multi-faceted concept of success. What Is Success? Many dictionaries define success as achieving something you set out to achieve — something that brings you joy and happiness....

People with two X chromosomes are usually female, an X and a Y make a male. But sometimes an XX is male and an XY is female. By studying these exceptions, researchers narrowed the search for the maleness gene to a smidgen of -the Y–a piece that was ate: sent from an XY female’s Y, but present on an XX male’s X. Researchers at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in London used biochemical scissors: to chop this smidgen of human DNA into 50 bits; they then mixed those bits with DNA segments from other mammals, male and female....

A total of 23,620 confirmed cases of monkeypox were reported globally as of August 1 according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as part of an ongoing global health emergency that scientists are still working to understand. Monkeypox is a virus first discovered in 1958 in colonies of monkeys kept for research. Since then the virus has remained endemic to West and Central Africa, with only a handful of cases ever discovered elsewhere....

The berries won’t glow in the dark–irradiation does not make food radioactive-but they have already lit a storm of protest. Food & Water, Inc., an advocacy group formed in 1986 to fight food irradiation, has already run take-no-prisoners ads warning that the process produces foods that “might kill you,” and it promises to have droves of protesters at the Miami grocery this week. Vindicator president Sam Whitney relishes the fight....

Hip Replacement Purpose Hip replacements are most often performed in patients with severe arthritis of the hip joint. The hip replacement uses a metal and plastic implant (sometimes ceramic) to replace the normal ball-and-socket hip joint. By removing the worn-out bone and cartilage of the hip joint and replacing these with metal and plastic, most patients find excellent pain relief and improved motion of the hip joint. Hip replacement surgery is generally very successful....

The remains were found just after 6:15 on Wednesday morning when the Fort Worth Fire Department responded to a dumpster fire outside of a business on Bonnie Drive. As firefighters extinguished the flames, three bodies were discovered inside the waste bin, and police were called to the scene. According to the Fort Worth Police Department, the bodies appeared to be that of a child, a teenager or adult female, and an adult male....

Bob Chapek, who recently took over as CEO from Iger, will take a 50 percent pay cut, according to an email from Chapek to employees. According to the email, Disney will be reducing the salaries of the company’s vice presidents by 20 percent, senior vice presidents by 25 percent and executive vice presidents and above by 30 percent from April 5. The news was met with praise from some on Twitter, including actress Nancy Lee Grahn, who wrote: “This is how an effective leader behaves....

The sheriff’s office said 108 people in total were arrested, including one woman charged with human trafficking, four people charged as child sexual predators for allegedly communicating sexual content to undercover officers posing as minors, and dozens of others charged for either seeking or offering prostitution. The U.S. State Department estimates that nearly 25 million people are a victim of human trafficking at any given time across the globe in various forms ranging from forced labor to sex trafficking....

The network’s parent, Disney Corp., announced Tuesday that it had agreed to pay $1.58 billion to increase its stake in BAM Media, the company responsible for streaming MLB content, from 33 percent to 75 percent. BAM Media is a spinoff of MLB Advanced Media, baseball’s digital enterprise. Disney will employ BAM Media to help it launch its own streaming service next year. MORE: Dan Shulman leaving ‘Sunday Night Baseball’ after season...

The so-called hack stems from a video posted by Amanda DiMeo last month, who claimed that she was given a voucher for a free Disney shirt after staff took issue with her outfit. She said: “If you’re wearing a shirt that shows a little underboob they’ll write you a ticket…so you can get a free shirt at the nearest gift shop.” DiMeo said she was able to pick which free shirt she wanted, and she added that the one she chose retailed for $75....

Or so liberals think. As one Politico writer put it, the very notion that the GOP would “demonize one of America’s most beloved and trusted corporations seems so quixotic on its face that it invites a simple question: not ‘Why would they do this?’ or even ‘Why would they think it could be done?’ but ‘Why would it even seem advantageous to try?’” On its face, this assessment of the dustup between Gov....

No one knows exactly what has happened during the Denny deliberations. At the weekend, jurors announced they had reached verdicts on some counts, but remained undecided on some of the most serious charges. The whirligig of juror challenges, dismissals and replacements has turned an attempted-murder trial into a test of the jury system itself. judge John Ouderkirk–a no-nonsense, conservative former prosecutor who rarely is overturned on appeal–had hoped to avoid precisely this scenario....

Indeed, it was for Bush–and it marked the end of an equally wild ride, but in the opposite direction, for Al Gore. He got his good news first–in the sunlit library of the vice president’s mansion. He reacted to the Florida court’s ruling by inviting guests in for champagne and by joining Joe and Hadassah Lieberman for a Jewish welcome-the-Sabbath ceremony. (They’d brought candles and challah for the occasion.) Later, Gore chairman Bill Daley and other aides got a standing ovation at the Palm Restaurant....

Some crowded events, like Black Lives Matter protests in Minneapolis and New York City, don’t appear to be tied to any major outbreaks of COVID-19. But an indoor political rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, for President Trump has been linked to a spike in cases. It’s understandable that people might be confused about crowds. Experts say that it’s important to keep in mind that crowds can be sources of transmission, even if transmission doesn’t always occur....

Answer by Carly Geehr, former USA Swimming National Team Member I’m going to assume you mean elite swimmers here, and not swimmers in general. Before I answer, I have to voice my disagreement with the assumption behind the question — that most elite swimmers peak young. Just look at the average age of the Olympic Teams over the past few quadrennia: A Demographic Shift: Ages of U.S. Olympic Swimmers. Swimmers now are going best times through their late twenties and early thirties....

No national statistics exist, but school officials say increasing numbers of students are taking a year off before or during college. Programs that offer everything from community service in Queens to sunbathing in Belize are on the rise, and most students who take a year tend to be standouts. Harvard, for example, encourages accepted students to take a year off before they even begin, just so they can unwind from the process of getting in....

According to Kathy Pickering, H&R Block’s chief tax officer, many first-time unemployment recipients don’t know those payments count as taxable income for both federal and state returns. Thanks to extended benefits that stretched up to 39 weeks in some states and additional weekly federal support payments, first of $600 and then $300, unemployment benefit recipients could be facing hefty tax bills they’re unprepared for and ill-able to afford, particularly if they are still out of work....