The World Cup changes careers. MORE: Cameron asks for transfer | Soccer’s most expensive XI Yedlin went from long shot to make the U.S. roster to impact substitute in Brazil to Premier League target in less than three months. That fast. He was a promising right back with limited experience as the 2014 MLS season began. After it ends, he’ll be headed off to play in the sport’s most popular domestic league....
Former striker Solskjaer was named caretaker boss after Mourinho parted ways with the club in the wake of a humbling 3-1 loss to Liverpool at Anfield. United have enjoyed a positive start to life under the Norwegian, beating Cardiff City 5-1 before Wednesday’s 3-1 victory over Huddersfield Town at Old Trafford. Shaw, who was criticised publicly by Mourinho on more than one occasion but had been one of United’s best performers in the early part of this season, thinks Solskjaer has already had a big impact on a team that was accused of playing far too negatively under their old manager....
So with a looming war against Iraq and a showdown with North Korea, what seems most likely to trigger the most swaggering displays of machismo? The number of names we can call Saddam Hussein? The number of nukes in Pyongyang? No. The most bitter and personal dispute rumbling through Washington is the age-old battle between the Clinton and Bush administrations. This time the battleground is North Korea, and it has two main fronts....
“The United States and our international partners would have to be completely devoted to the reconstruction of Iraq,” Condoleezza Rice, the president’s national security adviser, told me in an interview in September. That was a message that George W. Bush himself repeated just a week before the war began, in a mini-summit in the Azores with the British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his Spanish counterpart Jose Maria Aznar. With a new United Nations resolution behind him, President Bush was convinced he could–in his own words–“encourage broad participation in the process of helping the Iraqi people to build a free Iraq”....
Otto Reich once reigned supreme in the State Department, heading up its regional bureau for the western hemisphere. There he maintained the Bush administration’s hard-line opposition to Cuba’s Fidel Castro. And it was there that he kept close contact with the leaders of Venezuela’s abortive coup against President Hugo Chavez in April. Now, as Venezuela suffers another political crisis–in the form of a two-week-old strike designed to oust Chavez yet again–Reich is caught in a twilight zone....
The incident occurred at Newark Liberty International Airport on Wednesday, according to the viral Twitter thread. “Abandoned by @JetBlue in Newark at gate 38. They’ve lost my wheelchair and refuse to call a supervisor,” Yomi Wrong wrote in the first in a series of tweets, urging #DisabilityTwitter to share her post widely. In a follow-up tweet, she added: “All the elevators are broken so they have no way to bring the chair up....
That bowl game, though, wherever it is located and whomever OSU is assigned to play, offers the purest of escapes for a football team that lost so much on Saturday evening at Lucas Oil Stadium: the Big Ten Conference title, a 24-game winning streak and, most precious of all, an opportunity to play in the BCS Championship Game. Oh, and not to be forgotten, a chance to shut ‘em all up....
Released earlier this month, following the first Disney and Marvel Games Showcase, the life simulation title allows players to hang out with iconic characters like Elsa, Mickey Mouse and Goofy. You can also collect resources and craft special items, like Iron Ore and Iron Ingots. When you aren’t busy feeding foxes their favorite food or hanging out with your favorite Disney character, you’ll need to collect these important resources. Some of these resources, like cooking ingredients, can be grown using the game’s farming system....
The entertainment conglomerate released a statement revealing that Arnold will take the reins on December 31. She will replace outgoing chairman Robert Iger, who was also the company’s CEO until February 2020. Arnold has served on the Disney Board for 14 years, according to the press release, and also served as its independent lead director since 2018. “Susan is an incredibly esteemed executive whose wealth of experience, unwavering integrity, and expert judgment have been invaluable to the Company since she first joined the Board in 2007,” Iger said of his replacement....
One of the changes that most incensed Star Wars fans was made during an exchange in the 1977 original between smuggler pilot Han Solo (Harrison Ford) and bounty hunter Greedo (Paul Blake). In the original version, Greedo corners Solo with a blaster and voices his intention to win the huge bounty on Solo’s head. Surreptitiously, Solo prepares his own blaster beneath the cantina table. “I’ve been looking forward to this for a long time,” Greedo says....
Small wonder then that Woody, the pull-string cowboy (with the voice of Tom Hanks), is nervous about his Owner Andy’s 7th birthday. What if Andy’s new presents doom his old playthings to premature obsolescence? Will Woody still be top dog? The whole crew is near meltdown: Mr. Potato Head can’t keep his nose in place (he’s hoping there’s a Mrs. Potato Head in his future); Rex the dinosaur, a nervous Nellie to begin with, is sure his days are numbered; not to mention Harem the piggy bank, Slinky Dog, the coiled wire canine, and Bo Peep, Andy’s token female....
The park released a video about the reopening on July 8, titled “Walt Disney World Resort Theme Parks Prepare for Their Phased Reopening this Weekend.” The ad features shots of the park opening up, as employees in masks and face shields clean equipment, prepare rides, and clean hotel rooms. This welcome back gesture from Disney World has been deemed by critics as more forced and eerie than comforting The Disney Parks Twitter account also shared a video of the parks reopening on July 3, featuring Cast Members expressing excitement about returning Disney World....
Humane Society International (HSI) said investigations had taken place at 13 fur farms in the country between November and December 2020, revealing breaches of China’s farming regulations on animal housing, welfare, slaughter and epidemic control. On one farm, investigators filmed raccoon dogs being electrocuted using a double-spiked lance attached to a high voltage battery in such a way that experts say they would still have been conscious—albeit paralyzed—while experiencing a slow, agonizing death....
The Global Grand Challenges Summit provides an opportunity to bring people together across continents, disciplines and generations to tackle these challenges. A vital part of the summit will be an innovation competition for international groups of students from the UK, U.S. and China. Once students from each country have pitched their ideas to expert judges, each nation’s teams will be reassembled into mixed country teams to tackle the same issues in a new way, to demonstrate the power of diversity and cross-cultural work....
Before we break down our picks, here are the most notable scoring rules for DraftKings contests: full-point PPR, four-point passing TDs, three-point bonuses for 100 rushing yards, 100 receiving yards, and 300 passing yards. FULL-SLATE DFS LINEUPS: FanDuel Divisoinal Round Full-Slate DraftKings Picks: NFL DFS lineup advice for second round of playoffs $50,000 budget QB Aaron Rodgers, Packers vs. 49ers ($7,100) There are no easy answers when you get to the second round of the playoffs, as every team is above average in most phases of the game....
The six-time Australian Open champion declared it was some of the most ‘‘brutal’’ conditions he ever had to play on as Gael Monfils begged for the umpire to let him leave the court. I’m sick to the stomach," Monfils said. “I’m tired and dizzy.” But both men were forced to battle through the blistering heat, with Djokovic eventually claiming a 4-6, 6-3, 6-1, 6-3 win. Djokovic said the temperatures had pushed him to his limit, asking officials to use the extreme heat policy in such circumstances....
In May, he outclassed Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez, proving too big and too good for the weight-traversing pound-for-pound superstar, earning a deserved unanimous decision win in Las Vegas. The size equation will be reversed in Abu Dhabi this week when Bivol (20-0, 11 KOs) takes on another Mexican, Gilberto ‘Zurdo’ Ramirez. Although he is a former WBO super-middleweight champion, Ramirez is a huge specimen in the 175lbs division and weighed in at over 200lbs on fight night for his previous outing — a fourth-round stoppage of Dominic Boesel a week after Bivol had downed Alvarez....
Last weekend, CBS 2 in Chicago reported that from 5 P.M. Friday to 5 A.M. Monday, there were more than 100 people shot—and at least 13 were killed. Twelve of these shooting victims were children, and five of them perished. We do not yet know the demographic breakdown of this weekend’s victims, but we do know that African-Americans accounted for roughly 81 percent of Chicago’s homicide victims in 2019, and 79 percent in 2018....
The short answer: It depends. The longer answer? There’s limited research on this question, but there are certain factors that make decline and death in dementia more likely to occur. Relevant Research According to figures compiled in 2019, Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias are the 6th leading cause of death in the United States. So, where do people with dementia die? One study published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society involved more than 4,000 older adults who were studied for approximately five years....
