But that only made the organization’s day seem even more frustrating. Only one driver finished better than he started as Greg Biffle, who started 11th, finished 10th. Ricky Stenhosue Jr., who started 10th, ended up 15th. Carl Edwards, who started third, finished 23rd. It was a little bit better than in June but still a disappointing day for a team that had high hopes after qualifying. In June, all three cars finished from 20th-27th....
The face-like pattern, made out of black patches against the sun’s otherwise fiery features, was discovered in an image taken by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) spacecraft on October 26. It’s the result of the coincidental positioning of what are known as coronal holes, which are regions of open magnetic fields in the sun’s atmosphere that tend to be cooler and less dense than the surrounding plasma. Because of this temperature difference, coronal holes look darker than their surroundings when viewed using certain imaging equipment....
Her whereabouts weren’t revealed until 67 days later, on January 27, 2020, when her captors finally took her before a prosecutor. Prosecutors, as usual, did not investigate her forced disappearance and ordered her detained pending “investigation,” rubber-stamping unsupported security allegations that she was a member of an unnamed “terrorist” group. None of this is unusual. Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi’s government has, since late 2013, arrested and prosecuted tens of thousands of peaceful critics, journalists, academics and human rights defenders in an “assembly line” of serious abuse....
The arrests seem to be part of a larger ongoing crackdown against LGBTQ citizens that violate the country’s constitution and several international human rights treaties that Egypt has agreed to. A new report by the international non-governmental organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) includes testimonials from 15 people arrested between 2017 and 2020 for vague charges, including “debauchery” and “prostitution,” that have long been used internationally by police as pretexts for harassing suspected LGBTQ people....
The Buffalo Bills have benched EJ Manuel four games into the 2014 season. That puts them on the verge on giving up on their 2013 first-round pick after he’s played in less than a full season’s worth of games. CASH: Jets should let Geno play through | HAISLOP: LeSean McCoy timid behind shaky line play They’re now relying on Kyle Orton, in near-retirement just few months ago, to end their 15-year playoff drought after a 2-2 start....
I know, I know: it was bad enough during the campaign, having to watch the debates with your family and listen to your mom complain about how much bronzer some bozo had put on Al Gore while your little sister said, “What’s in a lockbox? What are seniors? Who are all the American people?” But now you come home and ask your parents a question about the Electoral College, and it’s just like asking for help with your math: “I don’t know,” they mumble....
Liverpool, Arsenal and Manchester City are gazing up at the Blues as the standard setters in the league with Costa setting the benchmark for his team with another outstanding display at Selhurst Park. Costa can win games in an instant, peeling away to the far post after Cesar Azpilicueta got his head up and picked out a perfectly lofted ball for him to nod home past Wayne Hennessey - notching his 50th goal for the club and he will undoubtedly be the leading scorer come Christmas....
Such is the case for Bengals cornerback Eli Apple. Apple, who made waves last season by relentlessly mocking the Chiefs after the Bengals beat them in the AFC Championship Game only to get beat himself for the game-winning touchdown in the Super Bowl, seemingly learned nothing from that experience. After the Bengals beat the Bills in the divisional round this year, Apple took to Twitter to mock Bills wide receiver Stefon Diggs’ emotional response to those criticizing his reaction to the loss....
From a Raid, a Reunion Elian Gonzalez wasn’t seized; he was rescued from a set of selfish, opportunistic relatives who thought they were above the law, and from a community that attempted to exploit a 6-year-old to further its own political agenda (“Raid and Reunion,” U.S. AFFAIRS, May 1). Now that he is finally back with his father, where he always belonged, I hope and pray that this family, which has endured so much anguish and uncertainty during the past six months, will be allowed to return to Cuba as expeditiously as possible, to get on with their lives in peace....
NATO defense and intelligence officials are keeping a close eye on the performance and fortunes of key Russian units—expected to be in the vanguard of any future Russian offensive against NATO in the Baltic region—that traditionally face alliance troops across the 755-mile NATO-Russia border; soon to be extended once Finland joins the transatlantic bloc. A European defense official who spoke with Newsweek on the condition of anonymity given the sensitivity of NATO intelligence-gathering methods revealed that groups deployed to Ukraine from three Russian formations based close to the border with Estonia and Latvia have lost between one-third and one-half of their original personnel since the invasion began on February 24....
She asked the executives why none of their banks waived overdraft fees during the height of the pandemic in 2020—as unemployment hit a high of at least 14.7 percent in April—when the Federal Reserve offered them protections of their own. “You and your colleagues come in today to talk about how you stepped up and took care of customers during the pandemic, and it’s a bunch of baloney,” Warren said at the start of the combative exchange on Wednesday....
Biden’s plan would provide universal preschool for millions of three and four-year-old children nationwide. Right-wing conspiracy theorists have claimed that the preschool will be mandatory and used to brainwash children into hating America and becoming social justice activists, according to The Guardian. MSNBC host Chris Hayes asked Warren about the conspiracy theory during the Monday’s All In With Chris Hayes. “I think the attack is frankly just bizarre,” Warren said....
Warren surged ahead of the former vice president and put some distance between herself and fellow Senator Bernie Sanders in the latest Des Moines Register/CNN/Mediacom Iowa Poll. Warren holds a 2 percentage point lead over Biden with 22 percent of likely Democratic caucus attendees saying she is their primary choice in the 2020 Democratic Party primary race. This week’s poll marks the first time Warren has appeared atop the list of candidates....
DeGeneres spoke out on her talk show Ellen earlier this week, responding to people politicizing her, a “gay Hollywood liberal,” sitting next to Bush, the controversial former Republican president, at an NFL game Sunday. “I’m friends with George Bush,” DeGeneres said on Tuesday. “I’m friends with a lot of people who don’t share the same beliefs that I have. We’re all different. And I think that we’ve forgotten that that’s OK that we’re all different....
Page first garnered notice in Hollywood as Ellen Page, star of Diablo Cody’s Juno. “I want to share with you that I am trans, my pronouns are he/they and my name is Elliot. I feel lucky to be writing this. To be here. To have arrived at this place in my life,” the Umbrella Academy star began their note. “I feel overwhelming gratitude for the incredible people who have supported me along this journey....
The Twitter and Tesla CEO wrote that the stalker targeted a vehicle containing his son X Æ A-Xii “thinking it was me,” with an 11-second video clip of a masked man, asking “anyone recognize this person?” It followed the banning of the @ElonJet Twitter account, which tracked the business tycoon’s private flights using publicly available information, as well as a number of other accounts run by 20-year-old University of Central Florida sophomore John Sweeney....
The billionaire technologist, whose “Falcon 9” reusable rocket was recently relied upon by NASA to send two U.S. astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS), gave his Russian space-faring counterparts free advice via his Twitter account this week. “They should really aim for full reusability by 2026. Larger rocket would also make sense for literal economies of scale. Goal should be to minimize cost per useful ton to orbit or it will at best serve a niche market,” Musk wrote in response to a tweet noting Russia’s efforts were still around 15 years behind advancements made by SpaceX....
The CEO of Tesla and SpaceX announced a bid to buy Twitter on April 14 after he purchased a 9 percent stake in the company in March. On Monday, Twitter announced that it will be sold to Musk for roughly $44 billion. In a TED interview shortly after announcing his bid, Musk said that Twitter needs to be “an inclusive arena for free speech”, prompting speculation that he might reverse the Twitter bans of some conservative figures, such as former President Donald Trump....
Clinton on Saturday condemned the attack on Pelosi, the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who was beat with a hammer inside the couple’s San Francisco home early Friday morning. His attacker David DePape reportedly has a history of believing right-wing conspiracies including QAnon. “The Republican Party and its mouthpieces now regularly spread hate and deranged conspiracy theories. It is shocking, but not surprising, that violence is the result. As citizens, we must hold them accountable for their words and the actions that follow,” Clinton tweeted on Saturday in response to the attack....
Really? I thought. What’s that about? Curiously, during the preceding nine months of continuous worry, Dostoevskian in intensity and Biblical in scope (what if he’s … an albino?), the question of happiness for the creature under gestation had never really entered my mind. If the Web had been in existence then I would have Googled “birth defects” and not gotten up from the computer until I had read all 6....
